Senate question hour: Civil servants embezzled Rs5b, says Naek
Law minister tells Senate that money embezzled during tenure of Pakistan Peoples Party-led coalition regime.
ISLAMABAD:
The government on Thursday informed the Senate that hundreds of civil servants embezzled Rs5 billion during the tenure of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) led coalition regime.
In his written reply to the Upper House of the Parliament, Law and Justice Affairs Minister Farooq H Naek said 643 government servants were caught on corruption charges and some Rs1.2 billion recovered from them.
In response to a written question posed by MQM Senator Nasreen Jalil, Naek said criminal proceedings have been initiated against the corrupt officials for the effective recovery of this looted money as per procedures devised under the National Accountability Ordinance 1999.
These corrupt officials belong to all provinces including the federal government and the offices concerned of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) are handling these cases.
NAB arrested 159 civil servants in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 81 in Balochistan, 48 in Punjab and 55 government servants in Sindh on charges of corruption misappropriation, embezzlement and misuse of authority added the reply.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 23rd, 2012.
The government on Thursday informed the Senate that hundreds of civil servants embezzled Rs5 billion during the tenure of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) led coalition regime.
In his written reply to the Upper House of the Parliament, Law and Justice Affairs Minister Farooq H Naek said 643 government servants were caught on corruption charges and some Rs1.2 billion recovered from them.
In response to a written question posed by MQM Senator Nasreen Jalil, Naek said criminal proceedings have been initiated against the corrupt officials for the effective recovery of this looted money as per procedures devised under the National Accountability Ordinance 1999.
These corrupt officials belong to all provinces including the federal government and the offices concerned of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) are handling these cases.
NAB arrested 159 civil servants in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 81 in Balochistan, 48 in Punjab and 55 government servants in Sindh on charges of corruption misappropriation, embezzlement and misuse of authority added the reply.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 23rd, 2012.