Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: The Director Generals’ Conference of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) concluded on Monday in Islamabad with a determination to pursue the corruption cases according to merit and transparently.

NAB Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry chaired the conference. The conference thoroughly deliberated the performance of all Regional Bureaus and NAB Headquarter including operation, prosecution and Awareness and Prevention Divisions of the NAB and reviewed measures taken by the present management of NAB in order to further improve the performance and efficiency of NAB.

While addressing the concluding session of the conference, the NAB chairman said that NAB was established to eradicate corruption and looted money from corrupt. “NAB has chalked out a very comprehensive operational methodology for proceeding of cases complaint verification, inquiry and investigation. NAB’s investigation officers strictly follow Code of Conduct and zero tolerance policy on the basis of evidence as per law,” he said.

He said that prosecution was also given targets and as a result of its endeavors, the accountability court conviction ratio was now 76%. He said NAB had recovered Rs 287 billion since its inception from corrupt and deposited in the national exchequer. “NAB received 3,43,356 complaints, which were all disposed off according to law. NAB has authorised 11, 581 complaint verifications, 7,587 inquiries, 3,846 investigations and filed 2,808 corruption references in the respective accountability courts to proceed against allegedly corrupt people since its inception. In a short span of three years during the tenure of present management of NAB, NAB performance remained excellent which is better than any investigation agency. We recovered Rs 45 billion, which a record amount,” he said.

During the conference, it was decided to establish a state of the art Anti-Corruption Training Academy on the pattern of National Anti-Corruption Academy of Malaysia to enhance the abilities of the officers/Officials working in NAB.