ISLAMABAD:The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Justice Javed Iqbal chaired a high level meeting at NAB headquarters to review overall performance of NAB.
Speaking on the occasion, NAB chairman said the bureau is determined the
logical conclusion of money laundering, mega corruption and white
collar crimes cases in a transparent way and on merit.
Chairman NAB has asked operations and prosecution division to file early hearing of applications in the learned Accountability Courts which are under trial. The
pending cases have accumulated looted volume of Rs 943 billion. The
law will take its course against billion of rupee corruption. Chairman NAB
said the eradication of corruption is NAB’s top most priority. All possible
Resources were being utilized to apprehend proclaimed offenders and absconded a. NAB is
striving hard to eradicate the menace of corruption. NAB officers
working hard to eradicate corruption by considering this as their
national duty. Performance of NAB has been lauded by Transparency
International, PILDAT,MISHAL.
The corruption is just like cancer which is mother of all evils and one of its solution is surgery. Instructions
have been issued to prosecution and operation divisions to deal with
mega corruption white collar crimes as well as all regional bureaus as per law. NAB has devised combined
investigation team (CIT) comprising two investigation officers, one
legal consultant and one finance expert. CIT works under the
supervision of director, additional director and case officers. The strategy of CIT is lending quality With
the establishment of the state of the art forensic Science laboratory in Islamabad in order to further improve the standards of
inquiries and investigations. The laboratory provides
various services like digital fronsic, question documents and finger
prints. NAB is the only institution which has inked a MoU to ensure
transparency in CPEC projects. Pakistan is the first chairman of Saarc
anti corruption forum which acknowledges meritorious services of
bureau.
NAB has been assigned the responsibility of corruption eradication and
recovery of looted money. Since inception the burau has recoverd Rs
714 billion and deposited in the national exchequer.