The director said the bureau has recovered around Rs1.3 billion during the past three years. PHOTO: FILE
National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Additional Director Tariq Mohammad Khan said on Saturday that the anti-corruption body is investigating a sitting member of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa cabinet.
Talking to journalists at Peshawar Press Club, Khan said a member of the incumbent cabinet, who was also part of the previous government, was being investigated for alleged corruption. He said NAB, after completing its investigation, would take prompt action in this regard.
The director said the bureau has recovered around Rs1.3 billion during the past three years from those involved in corruption, while about Rs700 million have been saved indirectly. He said NAB has received about 449 complaints and enquiries were carried out in nine cases, of which five have been completed.
Khan also said the bureau has arrested 21 senior officials of the government within 40 days.
Talking about the present case, he said the cabinet member was accused in a modarba scam and several other high-profile cases, adding the bureau will soon make arrests in the case.
NAB is a constitutionally protected and independent institution and is working free of any pressure, he claimed.
Khan said NAB immediately conducts enquiries after receiving complaints and at present, investigations were being carried out on several complaints. However, he said, they make arrests only after getting hold of solid evidence against an accused in order to avoid embarrassment. He said NAB was a transparent body and also investigates its own officials in case of complaints received against them.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 25th, 2014.
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