Daily Times

National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has launched crackdown against dozens of illegally recruited 17th grade officers in Sindh institutions including Former Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah and former Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon are also underway for interrogations.

According to the details, the NAB has intensified its investigation into the direct recruitment of Grade 17 officers in Sindh Information department. NAB had summoned the 17 officers recruited.

In this regard, the sources revealed that more than 40 posts of Grade 17 recruitments were made directly during the tenure of former Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon. In addition, 39 officers were made permanent by deviating from the rules in 2017.

NAB officials have so far recorded statements from eight government officials in the case. Former Chief Secretary Rizwan Memon has also been summoned to regularize 39 officers. Qaim Ali Shah and Sharjeel Inam Memon have also been interrogated as well.

Before this NAB has accused of Rs5.7bn to Sharjeel Inam Memon who has sidelined Nasir Hussain Shah as Sindh’s Information Minister, which is unchecked financial corruption/embezzlement of funds in Sindh’s Information Department is yet going on, bringing loss of billions of rupees to the provincial exchequer.

Earlier NAB has commenced inquiry against 14 officers from Sindh Information Department regarding awareness campaigns carried out by department during the period from 1st July 2015 to June 2018 among them the then Director General Syed Wajahat, then Director Yasmeen Memon, two section officers Nazeer Ahmed Sheikh and Altaf Hussain Memon, Six then Deputy Directors Moeez-ud-din Pirzada, Imtiaz Joyo, Azeem Shah, Yousuf Kaboro, Aziz Ahmed and Four Information Officers, Sarang Latif Chandio, Danish Memon, Farhat Janvri and Zafar Mallah.

While talking to Daily Messenger former officer from Information Department disclosed that these all officers who have been summoned by NAB they all belong to advertisement and billing department of Sindh Information adding that Yasmeen Memon, who is aunti of Sharjeel Inam Memon, she was also involved fire case at the information department in which it was claimed that the entire records got fire and they had no official data of payments to newspapers in which she was held responsible despite she was given post of Director. Source revealed that Sarang Latif Chandio has been in jail custody and his name is in ECL and Farhat Janvri, who is PRO of Chief Secretary Sindh, never does any work without bribe.