The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has directed all of its Regional offices to wind up the inquiries, investigations nearing completion within shortest possible time and pursue the cases in the courts pro-actively as slow prosecution would also delay the justice.
In this regard, on directions of Chairman NAB Qamar Zaman Chaudhry, an Action Plan has also been prepared asking the concerned Wings and Regions to conclude the Inquiries and Investigations where 80 percent or more work has been done within a month. Those cases for which deadline have been fixed should be completed without any further delay to reduce pendency.
A circular communicated to the Regional NABs seeking immediate enforcement, has raised concern that despite spending taxpayers' money on NAB, it has been unable to decrease pendency rate depicting low productivity of the Organisation.
The Regions have also been directed that the observation/queries raised by High Level Committee on Old Cases should be addressed within shortest possible time leading to the logical conclusion.
The Action Plan also directs to fully implement the concept of Combine Investigation Teams and all the Regional NABs would forward an updated list of ongoing inquires with timeline to the NAB Headquarters (HQs) on 3rd of every successive month.
Chairman NAB has directed that scrutiny of the cases must be done with utmost care to filter out the malafide complaints. He said that NAB Headquarters would carry out random checks of the cases at different stages including complaints, inquiries, investigations and prosecution.
He said special focus should be given to Awareness and Prevention activities, to spread the massage against corruption. NGOs, Media and Corporate sector be involved in developing awareness and publicity material.
He has also emphasised the critical importance of vigorous Prosecution, as no amount of hard work in preparation of a case will come to fruition if it is not effectively presented and prosecuted in the Court of Law. Describing the existing conviction rate of 65 percent as unsatisfactory, the Chairman NAB said unless the cases are presented and prosecuted properly in the courts, the end result would not be up to the mark for the NAB.-PR
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