ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain has said that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has so far recovered Rs33 billion in Asif Ali Zardari’s fake accounts case.
In a tweet, he said the recovered amount is equal to about $200 million. “With such a recovery level, the volume of corruption in the country could be gauged easily as how the past rulers had looted the country and Sindh province.”
He said the actual volume of corruption in the fake account case was whopping Rs5,000 billion.
آصف زرداری کے جعلی اکاؤنٹس کیس میں اب تک نیب 33 ارب روپیہ وصول کر چکی ہے اور یہ تقریباً 200 ملین ڈالر بنتے ہیں اصل مقدمہ 5000 ارب روپے کے لگ بھگ ہے اس وصولی سے آپ اندازہ لگا لیں کے اس ملک میں کرپشن کی کیا سطح رہی ہے اور حکمرانوں نے سندہ اور پاکستان کو کیسے لوٹا ہے
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) July 3, 2021
Earlier on June 29, an Islamabad Accountability Court (AC) on Monday has summoned former president Asif Ali Zardari in-person on June 29 in a fake account case.
The notice directed Zardari to appear in-person in the fifth corruption reference filed against him by NAB and submit his reply. The reference has accused the PPP co-chairperson of carrying out transactions using fake accounts.
His aide Mushtaq Ahmed, the former stenographer at Aiwan-e-Sadr, reportedly deposited Rs8 billion in a fake account after signing a deal with a housing society. The money, which had no trail, was then used by Zardari to reportedly buy properties in Karachi, including his house in Clifton.
In the Sindh tractor subsidy case, the court extended the physical remand of an accused person, Ghulam Sarwar, till June 21. Three former Sindh government employees have submitted requests to enter into a plea bargain in the case. They have been accused of causing Rs793 million loss to the national treasury.
NAB claimed that they colluded and made up fake identities of farmers and got tractors at subsidised rates under a government scheme. After receiving the tractors, they sold them to others at higher rates.
PIA FLIGHT OPERATION INCREASED:
Meanwhile, Fawad said that the Pakistan international Airlines (PIA) has significantly increased the number of its international flights to repatriate the overseas Pakistanis stuck abroad.
In a tweet, he said the emigrant Pakistanis were enduring difficulties regarding the schedule of PIA flights to Pakistan for the past few days.
The number of international flights has been increased by Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan on the instructions of Prime Minister Imran Khan after holding detailed meetings with the relevant officials of PIA and Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
