76% conviction ratio: NAB prosecution Division major player in eradicating corruption

The Prosecution Division of the National Accountability Bureau NAB is an important division responsible for providing legal opinion, legal assistance to NAB’s Operations Division and all regional bureaus of NAB in conduct of inquires, investigations as per law and laid down SOPs, pleading cases of NAB in Accountability Courts, High Courts and the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

This was stated by NAB Prosecutor General Waqas Qadeer who was briefing NAB Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry who chaired a meeting to review the overall performance of NAB Prosecution Division at NAB Headquarters.

Qadeer explained that under the leadership of Chairman NAB, the Prosecution Division has been revamped by inducting experienced and well educated legal consultants and special prosecutors. He said that on the directions of the Chairman NAB, a mechanism of handling of witnesses has been introduced and the result of this intervention is very encouraging.



He said that due to constant deliberations, monitoring and performance analysis of Prosecution Division, the overall conviction ratio is approximately 76 per cent which is one of the best conviction ratios recorded in quite some time. Chaudhry elaborated that NAB had received about 343,356 complaints from individuals and private and public organizations.

NAB authorised 11,581 complaint verifications, 7,587 inquiries, 3,846 investigations, filed 2,808 corruption references in Accountability Courts and during the tenure of present management of NAB, recovered Rs50 billion of ill-gotten money from corrupt elements which was all deposited in the national exchequer which is a remarkable achievement of NAB.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 10^th, 2017.