Friday, August 27, 2010

NAB accuses corruption cases against five bureaucrats

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau announced on Friday that it will file corruption cases against five bureaucrats, according to a DawnNews report.
The bureau, led by it acting chairman Irfan Nadeem also took the decision of not pursuing any action against politicians.
The bureaucrats included in the list are Mirza Abid Hussain Baig (former bureaucrat), Muhammad Afzal Gujjar (former DIG police), Irfan Elahi Johri (Services Cooperative Credit Corporation), Karim Baryali (Cooperative Housing Society) and Nawaz Ahmed (contractor).
Mirza Beg, an ex-secretary Punjab Workers Welfare Board and Saeed Zafar, ex-deputy secretary Labour and Man Power Department have been accused of misappropriating rupees 17.63 million from the funds of Punjab Workers Welfare Board, Lahore.
While Muhammad Afzal Gujjar, Ex-DIG police has been accused of making assets beyond his known sources of income and he also could not explain expenditures worth over 8.5 million and bank transactions amounting to over 6.5 million rupees.
The third reference is against Irfan Elahi Johri, Vice-Chairman of Service Cooperative Credit Corporation Limited and Imtiaz Elahi Johri, who had allegedly misused his authority to cause undue benefit to extend draft facility of rupees 10.63 million.
References were also filed against Abdul Karim Baryalai and others involved in illegal allotments and transfer of plots by the administration of the cooperative housing society.
The fifth corruption reference was filed against Nawaz Ahmad who has been allegedly involved in use of substandard material in installation of 20 Windmills at Pishin district of Balochistan.

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