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KARACHI: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has arrested former project director of the Lines Area Redevelopment Project (LARP) on charges of being involved in what is called China-cutting of precious plots, said a statement issued on Thursday.
It said that Fareed Ahmed Yousufani was held for his alleged involvement in bifurcation, amalgamation and allotment of precious auction plots in LARP through China-cutting, which caused billions of rupees loss to the national exchequer.
“He [Mr Yousufani] bypassed the auction which was otherwise mandatory as per the law and allotted the land (thus cut up into small pieces and sold to fake owners) to builder and the land grabber mafia at throwaway prices in return for huge bribe and commission,” said the statement.
“The illegal activities have caused a loss in excess of Rs5 billion to the national exchequer. The funds thus generated resulted in terror financing and unregulated settlements for terrorist activities,” it said.
In June 2015, the NAB arrested five officers of LARP on charges of their alleged involvement in grabbing of land worth billions of rupees. They were director Waseem Iqbal, deputy directors Fareed Naseem, Shahid Umar and additional directors Atta Abbas and Rashid Hussain.
The NAB statement also claimed the suspects had divulged during interrogation that many former project directors, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s administrators and Karachi Development Authority officers were also involved in illegal activities. The suspects had amassed huge assets for themselves through the corrupt practices, it said.
STB warehouses sealed
HYDERABAD: Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) personnel on Thursday carried out a raid on the Sindh Textbook Board (STB) office and seized the record relating to the government scheme of free distribution of books.
Accompanied by a civil judge, they sealed off some five warehouses.
ACE Jamshoro region deputy director Nadir Abro told the media that no one was arrested as no FIR was registered against anyone. He said that arrests would be made after inquiries, which were yet to be held. He said that stocks of books as old as the academic year 2011 were found lying in the warehouses.
He claimed that around 800,000 sets of books out of five million sets supposed to be distributed free of cost to students had allegedly been misappropriated. He said that the STB had the best printing press at its disposal but it used to get the books printed by private parties.
The STB secretary in charge, Yousuf Ahmed Shaikh, speaking to the media in Jamshoro dismissed the charges and said that the board was, however, cooperating with the ACE in the investigation.
It is learnt that the ACE personnel have picked up a storekeeper for interrogation.
Jacobabad road dept office record seized
SUKKUR: A Jacobabad ACE team accompanied by Civil Judge Mumtaz Jalbani conducted a raid on the office of of the road department’s district officer on Thursday and seized the two-year record.
The team wanted to interrogate the district officer, Fazal Mohammed Mangi, and the tender clerk, Syed Aijaz Shah, but they were not present in the office. The clerk’s lockers meant for keeping the tender record was sealed by the raiding team.
ACE official Syed Nadir Ali Shah said that the raid was conducted after complaints of massive corruption by some functionaries.
It was learnt that Mr Mangi had been operating from Karachi instead of his office since taking over his charge.
Shikarpur district accounts office raided
SHIKARPUR: The Larkana ACE team led by Assistant Director Noorullah Shaikh and Shikarpur circle officer Shahid Hussain Shahani raided the Shikarpur district accounts office on Thursday and took its record in custody.
District Accounts Officer Altaf Hussain Mangi, his assistant Aziz Ahmed Daudpoto and other officials concerned had left their offices before the raid.
The raiding team told the media that they were investigating alleged misappropriation of Rs250 million released for various education, irrigation and other schemes executed in the district.
They claimed that the raid was ordered by the education secretary and CM’s inspection team.
Raid on Chhachhro town committee office
MITHI: A Karachi NAB team led by assistant director Kamran Jafri raided the office of the town committee Chhachhro on Thursday in the ongoing investigation into Rs340 million scam allegedly involving three former town municipal officers and some contractors.
It was learnt that huge amounts of public money had been deposited in and drawn from fake accounts maintained by officials, contractors and other elements.
Some of the suspicious contractors told the NAB team that they were unaware of the money drawn by the TMOs from the accounts, which were fraudulently opened in their [contractors’] name.
Another raid within Tharparkar district was carried out by the Mithi ACE officer Zahid Hussain Mirani on the office of Nargarparkar town committee a day earlier.
He was accompanied by Nagarparkar Judicial Magisterate Maula Bukhsh Solangi.
The official seized the committee’s record pertaining to years 2009 to 2014.
Registration of cases ordered
MIRPURKHAS: The Mirpurkhas ACE has been asked by the higher authorities to lodge corruption cases against an assistant accountant at the Mirpurkhas SSP office, Rafique Ahmed Otho, head-constable Ali Ahmed Maher and constable Imran Khan in a scam involving Rs15.05 million.
Sources in the ACE area circle said that registration of cases against former taluka nazim Syed Inayat Ali Shah, former taluka municipal officer Mumtaz Magsi, former town officers Sohail Bhutto, Nazeer Ahmed Mangi and Dilawar Hussain Mangrio, head cashier Mir Maqbool Ahmed, clerk Merajuddin and contractors Basheer Ahmed, Allauddin and Furqan had also been ordered for their alleged involvement in corruption.
Published in Dawn, August 7th, 2015
It said that Fareed Ahmed Yousufani was held for his alleged involvement in bifurcation, amalgamation and allotment of precious auction plots in LARP through China-cutting, which caused billions of rupees loss to the national exchequer.
“He [Mr Yousufani] bypassed the auction which was otherwise mandatory as per the law and allotted the land (thus cut up into small pieces and sold to fake owners) to builder and the land grabber mafia at throwaway prices in return for huge bribe and commission,” said the statement.
“The illegal activities have caused a loss in excess of Rs5 billion to the national exchequer. The funds thus generated resulted in terror financing and unregulated settlements for terrorist activities,” it said.
In June 2015, the NAB arrested five officers of LARP on charges of their alleged involvement in grabbing of land worth billions of rupees. They were director Waseem Iqbal, deputy directors Fareed Naseem, Shahid Umar and additional directors Atta Abbas and Rashid Hussain.
The NAB statement also claimed the suspects had divulged during interrogation that many former project directors, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s administrators and Karachi Development Authority officers were also involved in illegal activities. The suspects had amassed huge assets for themselves through the corrupt practices, it said.
STB warehouses sealed
HYDERABAD: Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) personnel on Thursday carried out a raid on the Sindh Textbook Board (STB) office and seized the record relating to the government scheme of free distribution of books.
Accompanied by a civil judge, they sealed off some five warehouses.
ACE Jamshoro region deputy director Nadir Abro told the media that no one was arrested as no FIR was registered against anyone. He said that arrests would be made after inquiries, which were yet to be held. He said that stocks of books as old as the academic year 2011 were found lying in the warehouses.
He claimed that around 800,000 sets of books out of five million sets supposed to be distributed free of cost to students had allegedly been misappropriated. He said that the STB had the best printing press at its disposal but it used to get the books printed by private parties.
The STB secretary in charge, Yousuf Ahmed Shaikh, speaking to the media in Jamshoro dismissed the charges and said that the board was, however, cooperating with the ACE in the investigation.
It is learnt that the ACE personnel have picked up a storekeeper for interrogation.
Jacobabad road dept office record seized
SUKKUR: A Jacobabad ACE team accompanied by Civil Judge Mumtaz Jalbani conducted a raid on the office of of the road department’s district officer on Thursday and seized the two-year record.
The team wanted to interrogate the district officer, Fazal Mohammed Mangi, and the tender clerk, Syed Aijaz Shah, but they were not present in the office. The clerk’s lockers meant for keeping the tender record was sealed by the raiding team.
ACE official Syed Nadir Ali Shah said that the raid was conducted after complaints of massive corruption by some functionaries.
It was learnt that Mr Mangi had been operating from Karachi instead of his office since taking over his charge.
Shikarpur district accounts office raided
SHIKARPUR: The Larkana ACE team led by Assistant Director Noorullah Shaikh and Shikarpur circle officer Shahid Hussain Shahani raided the Shikarpur district accounts office on Thursday and took its record in custody.
District Accounts Officer Altaf Hussain Mangi, his assistant Aziz Ahmed Daudpoto and other officials concerned had left their offices before the raid.
The raiding team told the media that they were investigating alleged misappropriation of Rs250 million released for various education, irrigation and other schemes executed in the district.
They claimed that the raid was ordered by the education secretary and CM’s inspection team.
Raid on Chhachhro town committee office
MITHI: A Karachi NAB team led by assistant director Kamran Jafri raided the office of the town committee Chhachhro on Thursday in the ongoing investigation into Rs340 million scam allegedly involving three former town municipal officers and some contractors.
It was learnt that huge amounts of public money had been deposited in and drawn from fake accounts maintained by officials, contractors and other elements.
Some of the suspicious contractors told the NAB team that they were unaware of the money drawn by the TMOs from the accounts, which were fraudulently opened in their [contractors’] name.
Another raid within Tharparkar district was carried out by the Mithi ACE officer Zahid Hussain Mirani on the office of Nargarparkar town committee a day earlier.
He was accompanied by Nagarparkar Judicial Magisterate Maula Bukhsh Solangi.
The official seized the committee’s record pertaining to years 2009 to 2014.
Registration of cases ordered
MIRPURKHAS: The Mirpurkhas ACE has been asked by the higher authorities to lodge corruption cases against an assistant accountant at the Mirpurkhas SSP office, Rafique Ahmed Otho, head-constable Ali Ahmed Maher and constable Imran Khan in a scam involving Rs15.05 million.
Sources in the ACE area circle said that registration of cases against former taluka nazim Syed Inayat Ali Shah, former taluka municipal officer Mumtaz Magsi, former town officers Sohail Bhutto, Nazeer Ahmed Mangi and Dilawar Hussain Mangrio, head cashier Mir Maqbool Ahmed, clerk Merajuddin and contractors Basheer Ahmed, Allauddin and Furqan had also been ordered for their alleged involvement in corruption.
Published in Dawn, August 7th, 2015
