The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has given the go-ahead to its provincial chapter in Sindh to submit a complete charge-sheet against former Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani and former commerce minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim for their alleged involvement in a multi-billion rupee Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP''''s) scam.
Sources within FIA revealed that following the directives by the Interior Ministry, Director General (DG) FIA directed FIA Sindh to submit a complete challan in the anti-corruption court in the multi-billion rupee trade subsidy TDAP scam and seek to revoke the bail of the two accused - Yousaf Raza Gilani and Amin Fahim. "The agency had earlier slowed down the probe into mega corruption scams including TADAP involving some big fish at the behest of the government but now the Ministry of Interior has issued directives to FIA to speed up the investigation in these cases," they said.
FIA is presently investigating 39 mega corruption scandals with an estimated price tag for the treasury of Rs 33.8 billion. The mega corruption scams include five different cases with respect to Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) amounting to Rs 31.5 billion, 12 cases of TDAP of Rs 7 billion and Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPD) Rs 0.04 billion.
Additional scams include involvement of PSO employees in fraud, forgery impersonation, cheating and misrepresentation estimated at Rs 7.561 million, corruption in Afghan refugees camps amounting to Rs 13 million, Staff Colony Golen Gol scam Rs 250 million, Utility Stores Co-operation (USC) Rs 15.1 million, Hajj scam Rs 544 million, OEC Tower Sihala Chemical Complex scam Rs 86.678 million and Skill Development Council (National Training Bureau) Rs 45 million, Capital Development Authority (CDA) (Abu Dhabi Tower F-11) Rs 78.96 million, Mars Exchange Company Rs 700 million, Live Securities Karachi Rs 145.755 million, PSO account officer and HBL Rs 193.5 million, Narcotics Control Division Rs 2.26 million, PIA-acquisition of 5-Boeing 777-300 ER aircraft in violation of PPRA rules Rs 8.6 million, and Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority, (PEMRA) Rs 40 million.
Sources said that a number of other politicians and senior bureaucrats are allegedly involved in high profile scams including former minister Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain, ex-religious affairs minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi and former defence minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar.
Senior bureaucrats and government officials allegedly involved in different scams include Dr Waqar Masood Khan (former member of PIA''''s board of directors), Zafar Iqbal Gondal, former Chairman EOBI, Wahid Khurshid Kunwar, DG EOBI, Asif Azad, Director Investment, Kamran Fazal, Director F&A, Syed Asif Akhtar Hashmi, ex-Charmin ETPB, Dr Nazir Saeed, former member board ETPB, Parvaiz Akhtar Shah chief engineer, Malik Mushtaq former chairman PEMRA, and former chairman CDA Farkhand Iqbal.
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