National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Justice (Retd) Javed Iqbal on Wednesday said a record sum of Rs. 363 billion have been recovered directly or indirectly from the corrupt elements in the last two years. According to a press release, Chairing a high level meeting held to review the two years performance of bureau, he said that the bureau has put its energies together to take the under trial cases to logical conclusion by setting aside political influence pressure.
Chairman said encouraging results of the policy of awareness, prevention and enforcement has already started pouring in. NAB has concentrated on pursuing corruption, misappropriation in government funds, abuse of authority, money laundering and cheating the people at large cases. He said NAB has received 75,268 complaints in the last two years, out of which 66,838 were disposed of.—Staff Reporter
