Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Accountability Irfan Qadir on Wednesday said the PTI government mislead the UK’s National Crime Agency on the repatriation of £190m to Pakistan. Addressing a presser, he said the previous government cunningly used the Supreme Court’s bank account [for repatriating pubic money].
“The NCA misunderstood that the money was being repatriated to the country’s exchequer,” he added. He went on to say that the £190m scandal was getting traction these days, adding that the UK’s National Crime Agency had frozen some accounts in England. “Zero-tolerance policy needs to be adopted against those who looted public money,” he added.
It was being projected that stolen money was to be repatriated to the country, he said. Qadir continued by saying that the federal cabinet approved the repatriation on Dec 2, 2019, but the money was not repatriated to the national exchequer.
“It should be investigated why the SC did not review it,” he added. He said the PTI government did not share the State Bank of Pakistan’s bank account with the UK government, adding that the British agencies were tricked.
