ISLAMABAD:-The Executive Board meeting of NAB-EBM was held on Tuesday at NAB headquarters. Which was chaired by Justice Javed Iqbal, NAB chairman. The meeting was attended by Syed Asghar Haider, Prosecutor General Accountability, Zahir Shah ,
Director General Operation, Irfan Naeem Mangi, DG,NAB, Rawalpidi and
other senior officers of NAB.
It’s a yearlong policy of NAB to share details of the NAB EBM meeting with the
people. Indeed this does not aim at hurting the feelings of any person.
NAB is a people friendly institution, which always believes in protecting
the dignity and respect of every person as per law. The inquiries and investigations are
initiated on the basis of alleged allegations which are not final as the
go ahead signal is only given in a case – after obtaining point of view of both sides of the picture as per law.
The EBM accorded approval of filing of reference against Ejaz Haroon,
former Chairman PIA, Abdul Ghani Majeed and others on their involvement in illegal allotment of plots in Overseas Cooperative Housing Society Limited (Kidney Hills) Karachi and payment of those plots through fake bank accounts which inflicted heavy losses to
national exchequer.
The EBM okayed conducting of inquiry against the officers/officials of
Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation. The EBM accorded
approval of referring the complaint regarding negligence in performance of official duty by
official/officers of Customs deployed at Sost Dry Port to Federal
Board of Revenue (FBR) for further proceedings as per law.
The EBM has said that NAB always believes in respecting the sanctity and respect
of parliament and parliamentarians. Business community play important
role in the progress and prosperity of the country. NAB strongly
denied the impression that the business community is perturbed due to
NAB’s action. NAB always believes to perform its duties in accordance with law. Business community and all other segments of Pakistani communities also
desire the transformation of the country into prosperous, corruption
free and developed country.
NAB has outrightly rejected and brushed aside the impression of some elements
about death of accused person in its custody, adding that such baseless and
misleading allegations can’t stop NAB from performing its legal
and constitutional obligations to eradicate corruption from country. NAB has decided to initiate probe against the
baseless, misleading, concocted and fabricated propaganda against NAB in order to tarnish its image and repute as an institution
under clause 31 (a)
of NAB Ordinance.
The Honourable Mr. Justice Javed Iqbal Chairman NAB has said that NAB’s faith is to ensure corruption free Pakistan as eradication of corruption from the
country is the topmost priority of bureau. Since inception, the NAB has recovered Rs. 714 billion from corrupt elements directly and indirectly
and deposited the looted amount into national exchequer. The performance of NAB has been appreciated by reputed national and international institutions which is an honour for the NAB. NAB is national anti corruption institution having no affiliation with an individual,group and political party. It has only affiliation with the State of Pakistan.
He directed to utilise all available resources for concluding
complaint verifications, inquiries and investigations in the light of
relevant laws. He directed prosecutors and investigation officers to
pursue the corruption cases in accountability courts after complete
preparations so that the looted amount could be deposited in the
national kitty.