NAB recoveries add up Rs714b to public purse
The country’s top anti-graft body – National Accountability Bureau (NAB) – deposited about Rs714 billion in the national exchequer after recovering from the corrupt elements in last three years with recovery ratio of 68.8 per cent.
According to the national-graft buster’s three years (2018-2029) performance report, NAB Rawalpindi recovered Rs287.293983 million in 2018, Rs93.473 billion in 2019 and Rs196.222 billion in 2020 directly and indirectly from corrupt elements.
Similarly, NAB Lahore recovered Rs9.631 billion in 2018, Rs33.554 billion in 2019 and Rs29.025 billion in 2020.
Likewise, NAB Karachi recovered Rs8.874 billion in 2018, Rs3.329 billion in 2019 and Rs80.975 billion in 2020. NAB Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa recovered Rs356.780 million in 2018, Rs244.754 million in 2019 and Rs131.780 million in 2020.
Moreover, NAB Balochistan recovered Rs1.054 billion in 2018, Rs71.658 million in 2019 and Rs48.728 million in 2020.
NAB Sukkur recovered Rs748.672 million in 2018, Rs8.5 billion in 2019 and Rs16.882 billion in 2020. NAB Multan had recovered Rs1.220 billion in 2018, Rs2.384 billion in 2019 and Rs499.82 million in 2020.
“Corruption is the root cause of all evils. NAB is committed to make Pakistan corruption free as the fight against corruption is being taken as a national duty,” NAB Chairman Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal was quoted as saying in the official statement.
He said that the anti-corruption body was established to eradicate corruption and to recover looted money from corrupt elements. NAB is the focal organisation of Pakistan under the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) as the country has ratified and is a signatory of UNCAC, he added.
“Pakistan is the only country in the world to which China has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for eradication of corruption,” Iqbal said.
It reads that NAB has chalked out a national anti-corruption strategy comprising awareness, prevention and enforcement, which has started yielding excellent results. APP