201 arrested, Rs5.2m recovered by ACE

MULTAN: Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) Multan Division has arrested 201 culprits and recovered Rs5.2 million during the previous nine months. ACE has conducted 60 raids this years in contrary to only 8 raids conducted previous year, said Anti-Corruption Establishment Multan division Director Gohar Mushtaq Bhutta.

He said that three officers of grade 18, one officer of grade 17 and one officer of grade 16 were also among the arrested. He said that ACE has also confiscated bribe money of Rs1 million from these officers.

He said that the anti-corruption department worked impartially without any personal prejudices.

He added that the anti-corruption establishment was working day and night to wipe out corruption on the directives of Punjab Government. The operation would continue till the elimination of corrupt mafia, he added.

Bhutta claimed that the protest by All Pakistan Clerks Association (APCA) was an act to stop the anti-corruption drive against the corrupt mafia but any pressure would not be tolerated in this regard. He said that ACE was taking action according to the law.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 20^th, 2017.