NAB returns Rs 760m to over 3,000 victims of housing societies fraud
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The chairman also assured that the Bureau’s officials cannot be influenced or pressurized
LAHORE (Dunya News) – National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday returned Rs 760 million to more than 3,000 victims of housing societies fraud.
Anti-graft watchdog Justice (r) Javed Iqbal visited Bureau’s Lahore office where he was given detailed briefing on the progress made in mega corruption cases by the Combined Investigation Teams (CIT) headed by Director General NAB Lahore.
The anti-graft agency chairman distributed cheques worth Rs760 milllion among more than 3,000 victims of Model Housing Enclave and Ferozepura Housing Society.
Criminal justice injustice
WAYNE KUBLALSINGH
ON DECEMBER 2, Nazma Muller, Adrian Gookool, Elizabeth Solomon and Denise Pitcher, the executive director of the Caribbean Centre for Human Rights, and myself met with the Director of Public Prosecution, Roger Gaspard, at his Richmond Street office.
Gaspard was bold, forthcoming and enlightening. He agreed to review a list of cases of inmates that we had compiled. Although “the bandwidth of problems in the criminal justice system was too broad” (Gaspard) to cover in a two-hour meeting, the following issues were discussed:
Plea Bargaining Act: One of the purposes of this act was to cure delays. But litigants and their attorneys are not tripping over themselves to get to the DPP’s office to plea-bargain.