NAB freezes assets, puts on ECL 3 former federal Ministers, 6 PEPCO heads
Among those whose names have been asked to be put on the ECL include former federal ministers for Water and Power Raja Pervez Ashraf, Liaqat Jatoi and former federal minister for finance Shaukat Tareen. Former WAPDA chairman Tariq Hameed.
Additionally the names of former federal secretaries of Water and Power and Finance including Salman Siddique, Shahid Rafi, Ashfaq Mehmood, Saeed Zafar, and Ismail Qureshi have been included. Meanwhile, the six PEPCO chiefs Anwar Khalid, Munawar Baseer, Tahir Basharat, Khalid Irfan, Fazal Khan, Saleem Arif have also been included in the list.
Four names of concerned officials from NEPRA, Gencos and PPIB have also been included in the list.
NAB authorities further claimed that they have informed Banks and concerned District Coordination Officers (DCOs), District Officers (Revenue) and other concerned authorities for freezing bank accounts of the accused and putting caution on the assets of 12 involved rental power companies.
Sources said that the decision to freeze bank accounts and putting names on the ECL was taken in a meeting held at NAB Headquarters in Islamabad on Monday. Chairman NAB Admiral (retd) Fasih Bokhari, the Deputy Chairman Javed Qazi, the Director General Operations as well as Special Operations Division Col. (retd) Shahzad Anwar Bhatti attended the meeting along with other concerned officials.
They also managed to get names of the owners, chief executives and agents of 12 rental power companies from the Ministry of Water and Power and Ministry of Finance, sources revealed.
NAB is currently working on a second list of names of owners, chief executive and agents of the 12 rental power companies, which will be sent to the Ministry of Interior on Tuesday for placing on the ECL.
However, FIA officials posted at different airports while talking to The Express Tribune said that they had so far received no written or verbal orders from the Ministry of Interior to stop the three former federal ministers, five former federal secretaries and six former PEPCO chiefs from travelling abroad.
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I am afraid that based on NAB's prior performance, nothing will come out of this. All accused are well connected in government and billions of rupees in personal accounts. They can literally buy their way out of trouble.
Raja Pervez Ashraf unfortunately has disgraced my family, which he hails from. I am happy his name has been put on ECL and I think he and his croonies should be brought to justice if they have done any harm to national sovereignity in the name of corruption of any kind...........good job NAB
This is another topee drama to fool the people. All these big wigs will be free to travel wherever they wish soon. They just have to share some of their loot with the NAB officials.
The government has been dodging supreme court for 5 years. The judiciary, army and the politicians are all in bed with each other.
Why Shaukat Tareen.? He opposed RPPs.
We wish that NAB hanged those people who were involved in this corruption. It has been four years thaat this government is doing corruption only and no one is there to stop them. May Allah protect Pakistan from these type people.