In light of the recent changes to the accountability legislation, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) established a committee on Thursday to examine and make decisions about the future of current inquiries and probes.
The choice was made during a NAB Executive Board Meeting, which interim Chairman Zahir Shah presided over. Syed Asghar Haider, the prosecutor general for accountability, Farmanullah Khan, the director general of the NAB in Rawalpindi, and other top officers were present at the meeting.
According to a news release, the committee would be led by the DG headquarters and would be made up of the director of the NAB Operation Division, legal advisors from the Prosecution Division, and pertinent desk officials from the operation division at the NAB headquarters.
The committee would determine whether the modified NAB Act, 2022 required a current inquiry or probe to be closed or continued. It would deliver a draught report to the EBM and the pertinent departments for additional review.
The newly modified NAB Act will be put into effect, the EBM decided. By the modified laws, the meeting further determined not to disclose the specifics of inquiries and probes it had authorized.
The National Exchequer suffered a loss of Rs794 million as a result of the EBM’s approval of the filing of a reference against Meraj A Syed, the former chief hydrographer of the Gwadar Port Authority, and others. Due to a lack of evidence, the EBM also closed investigations into Shahid Hussain Asad, a former additional secretary for the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, and other officers and officials of the Peshawar Development Authority, as well as other officers and officials and contractors of the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA).
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