Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: The 14 senior officers of the CDA who allegedly plundered national wealth worth of billions of rupees are roaming freely due to the patronage of some officers sitting at the Prime Minister’s Secretariat,

A document available with Daily Times ,has revealed that some dishonest officers working at the PM”s secretariat had given a safe passage to those officers who are allegedly involved in mega corruption scams of the Capital Development Authority.

The senior officers who had carried out investigation into these mega scams show a lack of interest in arresting the corrupt mafia of the CDA, who had accumulated assets beyond their visible income, a sources told this scribe not wishing to disclose his identity.

According to the document, there exist six mega corruption scams including citizens’ club scams, sale of health centres at F-7 Markaz, NOC to petrol pumps and CNGS, illegal hotels at G-6 Markaz, Park Line Estate and increase in shops at G-6/3 bazaar

These scams were probed by a four-member committee comprising Haseeb Athar, M. Ali Shazada, Amjad Sarfraz and Asad Abbas.

The investigation team submitted its findings to the PM’s Secretariat on March 4, 2014, with the direction that huge financial irregularities had been committed during the dispensation of the above mentioned projects.

The committee also proposed that strict disciplinary action should be taken against the guilty officers who allegedly plundered the national wealth and were found accused of misusing their official position while providing undue favours to their close friends, a senior officer privy to this development divulged.

A three-members investigation team, headed by the Secretary Petroleum Arshid Mirza and comprising Dr, Jamal Yousaf Khan J,S Ministry of Defence Production, Raja Saifur Rehman Advocate SC and Safdar Shah DD Administration, CDA, also conducted a probe into eight mega scams including grants of NOCs to housing societies, the D-12 extention, the E-11 Sector issue, the Margallah Phase-11 , Kuri Model Village, acquisition awards, agro farms allotment and surrendering of land by private housing societies.

The investigation report was also submitted to the PM’s secretariat on March 4, 2014,with the recommendation to take punitive action against the culprits involved in these scams and to recover the misappropriated public wealth from the mafia.

According to well placed source, PM Nawaz Sharif directed his principle secretary to get these corruption scams of the CDA probed properly and to recover the plundered wealth from the criminals.

The source said that the investigation teams were constituted at the behest of the PM that have conducted the investigation into the corruption scams against the corrupt mafia of the CDA but the PM has now forgotten to take any action against the officer identified as corrupt in the final reports.

It must be noted that the officers who had been identified as responsible in these scams belong to the PPP regime and the incumbent regime led by Nawaz Sharif has also made political reconciliation to PPP.

The source said that the former chairmen CDA, including Tahir Shahbaz, Imtiaz Anyat Elahi, Kamran Lashari and Farkhan Iqbal were accused of misusing their officials powers during the dispensation of some mega projects.

The investment made at the Karachi Stock Exchange was carried out on the direction of the former chairman Karmaran Lasharim who is now working under the Punjab government and overseeing its old Lahore project.

The former chairman directed his finance members to make investment in the KSE causing a huge loss to the national exchequer.

A health directorate was auctioned during the Zardari regime and now the Safa Mall has been erected over this land but the officers who caused the huge loss to the national kitty are roaming free due to the inaction of the PM establishment.

According to rules and regulations, the PM was bound to send these investigation report to the FIA or the NAB for criminal investigation against the officers but the PM’s secretariat kept mum over these reports and thus continues to give a safe method of movement to the criminal gangs.

The source also said that Myran Nawaz, the daughter of PM Nawaz Sharif, who had handled the government affairs in the absence of Nawaz Sharif also showed no interest in taking any action against the corrupt mafia.

The final findings of these corruption scams were presented to her for taking punitive action against the identified officer but she also failed to recover the plundered wealth and put these files in the dustbin of the PM’s Secretariat.

Daily Times repeatedly called and sent SMS to Musaddaq Malik, to get the views of the PM on the inaction on the probe report, but he did not come up to say anything.