According to Public Works Department up to Rs 340 million has been misspent. PHOTO: MARIAM ESSA/EXPRESS
The Anti-Corruption Circle of the FIA has started a probe into ‘ghost’ projects in under the Peoples Works Programme-II.
According to Public Works Department, up to Rs340 million has been misspent.
FIA Punjab Director Usman Anwar said the probe was initiated following a letter the PWD director general sent to him on Friday.
He said in NA-98, in 34 schemes costing Rs391m, as much as Rs246m involving 31 schemes were suspect.
Superintendent Engineer Chaudhry Nawaz had been tasked to carry out an inspection of schemes executed under the PWP-II in NA-98. MNA Tariq Mehmood had contacted the PWD for inspection of schemes in his constituency. 34 development schemes in NA-98 were checked and copies of physical inspection reports were compiled. According to these reports, a loss of Rs246 million was found through embezzlement, bogus payments or substandard work.
Nine officers suspected of a role in causing the loss were identified
Published in The Express Tribune, March 3rd, 2014.
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