ISLAMABAD:- Dec 20, 2021: Honourable Mr. Justice Javed Iqbal, Chairman NAB has said that Business Community play important role in the economic development and prosperity of the country. NAB has great regard for Business Community. NAB had referred cases of sales tax, income tax and under invoicing to FBR for appropriate action as per law.
Taking mega corruption white collar crime cases to logical conclusion and eradication of corruption is the top most priority of NAB and extraneous efforts are underway to achieve above mentioned goals of corruption eradication and taking mega corruption cases to logical conclusion.
Investigating white-collar crimes is a big challenge.
NAB officials are fulfilling the duty of eradicating corruption from the country as a national duty.
NAB received most complaints about illegal housing/Cooperative Societies and Modaraba/Musharka scandal.
He said illegal housing/Cooperative Housing societies allegedly involved in looting hard earn money of poor people through sales of plots in different housing and cooperative societies without having NOC/Layout plan approval as well as sufficient land required for the society.In some cases, illegal housing societies has no land for the housing scheme.The trapped people to buy plots by attractive advertisement campaign. Chairman NAB has directed the regional bureaus to submit the latest report of illegal housing societies, cooperative societies and Modaraba scandals so that progress on ongoing cases would be reviewed, besides expediting efforts of resolving complaints and recovering hard earned money of the effectees. He said that NAB has introduced a joint investigation team (CIT) system to benefit from the collective wisdom of its senior supervisory officers, besides giving two months from complaint to complaint verification, four months time from complaint verification to inquiry and four months time from Inquiry to investigation.He said the NAB has set a time limit of 10 months for the disposal of cases, of which, positive results have already been started pouring in. -PR