NAB makes Rs6.1tr recoveries since its inception

ISLAMABAD: The DGs Conference of the National Accountability Bureau was Thursday informed that the bureau had so far made direct and indirect recoveries of Rs6.1 trillion since its inception, while during the last six months, direct and indirect recoveries of more than Rs4 trillion rupees had been made.

The 24th DGs Conference concluded at the NAB Headquarters here with Chairman Lt. Gen. (Retd) Nazir Ahmed in the chair.

Deputy Chairman Sohail Nasir, Prosecutor General Accountability Syed Ihtesham Qadir Shah, DGs of Divisions at NAB Headquarters and Regional Bureaus, Advisors and other senior officers participated in the conference.

In the three-day conference, the director generals, advisors and heads of various departments of the NAB Headquarters and regional offices presented detailed reports on the performance of their departments.

The conference thoroughly deliberated the performance of all regional bureaus, divisions and cells and reviewed measures taken by NAB to further enhance its performance and efficiency. The conference concluded with the resolve to provide speedy relief to the affected public in large scams.

The heads of regional offices presented their performance report in which it was stated that during the last one year, Karachi and Sukkur regions made indirect recoveries of 2.5 trillion rupees by recovering forest land on an area of 1.8 million acres and a formal report was submitted to the chief minister of Sindh after recovering forest land from the land grabbers.

The cooperation of the provincial government of Sindh in this regard was highly appreciated. Apart from this, NAB Karachi recovered Rs1189 million through settlement. Similarly, National Accountability Bureau Sukkur recovered 631,352.26 acres of forest land worth Rs1,103.5128 billion as indirect recovery, while NAB Khyber Pakhtunkhwa made indirect recoveries of Rs194,937 million.

NAB Lahore said in 2023-24, 23786.158 million rupees were recovered and returned to 31,038 victims in cases of public at large cheating.

Similarly, NAB Rawalpindi is also playing an important role in recovering money in major cases of fraud and returning back money to the victims, while NAB Multan and Quetta performed well to serve the country and the nation by making significant recoveries.

The meeting was informed that at present 724 inquiries and 217 investigation cases were in progress and the number of references under hearing was 821. While 16429 complaints have been dealt with since January 2024. The conference also discussed the auctioning of confiscated and frozen properties under various cases and it was decided that the best strategy should be adopted in the auctioning process of the frozen and confiscated properties and amount should be returned to the victims so that they can get relief without delay.