NAB chief calls for zero tolerance against graft
islamabad — National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry has said the bureau needed to maximise its efforts to eradicate corruption by adopting ‘zero tolerance policy’.
He was addressing officers after two days of annual inspection of NAB’s office in Rawalpindi.
He said it was encouraging to make anti-corruption part of development agenda in context of governance and the National Planning Commission included a chapter devoted to issues of corruption in 11th five-year plan.
He said NAB was essentially a complaint-driven organisation and during the last 16 years received about 326,694 complaints from individuals and private/public organisations.
During this period, NAB authorised 10,992 complaint verifications, 7,303 inquiries, 3,648 investigations, filed 2,667 corruption references in respective accountability courts and overall conviction ratio was about 76 percent.
Since NAB’s inception, one of NAB’s major achievements was recovery of around Rs285 billion of ill-gotten money which had been deposited in national exchequer, he added.
He said the 2014, basically a year of reinvigoration, NAB had moved with new zeal and zest.
The chairman said through detailed introspection and analysis of organisational weaknesses, overhaul of procedures and business processes, all pillars of the organisation such as operations, prosecution, human resource development and awareness and prevention had been re-activated.
He said NAB had established its first Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in NAB’s Rawalpindi office which had facilities of digital forensics, questioned documents and fingerprint analysis. — APP