Chairman NAB Justice (RETD) Javed Iqbal has said that NAB is absolutely committed for logical conclusion of mega corrup
tion white collar crime cases.
He said that NAB has filed 101 corrup
tion references in different accountability courts from out of a total of 179 mega corrup
tion references.
Out of which 46 corrup
tion references had already been disposed off. Out of a total of 179 mega corrup
tion references, 13 inquiries and 19 investigations are under process.
NAB has recovered record Rs 178 billion from the corrupt elements during the last two years directly and indirec
tly from corrupt elements and deposited in the national exchequer.
Besides, NAB has recovered Rs. 328 billion from corrupt and deposited in national exchequer. He directed all DGs of NAB to pursue all corrup
tion cases accordi
ng to merit and transparently as per law. Honourable Justice Mr. Javed Iqbal said these remarks while chairing fortnightly meeting of NAB to review its performance at NAB headquarters.
NAB thorough delibera
tion of the performance of all Regional Bureaus and NAB Headquarters including opera
tion and Prosecu
tion Divisions of the NAB as well as measures taken by the present management of NAB in order to further improve the performance and efficiency of NAB are being reviewed regularly in order to implement the decisions in letter and spirit.
Chairman NAB said that NAB has chalked out a very comprehensive Anti Corrup
tion Strategy for eradica
tion of corruption. Chairman NAB directed that NAB’s investiga
tion officers zero tolerance policy on the basis of evidence as per law.
He said that to close the possibility of any single NAB officer influencing the discharge of official inquiry/investigation, the concept of a “Combined Investiga
tion Team” (CIT) has been introduced where two investiga
tion officers and a legal consultant are working as a team for a fair, transparent and unbiased, inquiry/ investigation. He said that the overall convic
tion ratio in respected accountability courts is about 70%.
He said that the performance of all Regional Bureau’s of NAB would be conducted on midterm and annual basis at a given criteria under Quantified Grading System in order to review and further improve the performance of officers/officials of NAB as with better quantitative and qualitative improvements in Operational Efficiency Index, rationalized workload, clearly drawn job descriptions and institutional support and supervision.
He said that Monitoring and Evalua
tion System (MES) has been developed for catering the needs of all concerned having salient features of maintenance of data at each stage including complaint entry, complaint verification, inquiry, investigation, prosecu
tion stage and record preserva
tion of Regional Board Meetings and Executive Board Meetings including case brief was discussed and decided that Monitoring and Evalua
tion (M&E) System will be implemented forthwith with the ability to analyze data in qualitative and quantitative form having warnings and alarms
system for violator
s.
The Chairman NAB appreciated the devoted efforts of NAB Headquarters and all regional bureaus of NAB and directed all officers to double their efforts in eradica
tion of corrup
tion and to recover looted money from corrupt as NAB is determined to make Pakistan corrup
tion free as per law.