National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has placed 184 accused persons on Exit Control List (ECL) through Ministry of Interior during 2006 putting the number of total persons on ECL as on December 31, 2006 to 654.
According to the spokesman of NAB, out of these 184 persons, 68 are government servants, eight are politicians, five from Ex-Armed Forces and 103 were businessmen and others.
Out of 654 persons of ECL till December 31, 2006, 286 are government servants, 32 are politicians, six from Ex-Armed Forces and 330 are Businessmen and others.
NAB has issued warrants of 165 accused persons during the year out of which 123 were arrested while other 42 accused are still at large. Combined with the number of persons at large of the previous years, the total comes to 345.
Keeping in view the objective to serve public and root out the menace of corruption, NAB received 13,722 complaints during the year 2006 making a total of 17,027 complaints including the backlog.
According to the official sources, out of these 14,255 (83.5%) complaints were processed and 2802 (16.5%) are under process. As many as 3383 complaints were received to NAB Punjab, 677 to NAB Headquarters, 4506 to Sindh, 2433 to NWFP, 616 to Balochistan and 2107 to Rawalpindi.
A complaint is converted into inquiry after its verification. High priority is given to the cases involving interest of the public at large and where corruption in excess of Rs 100 million is detected. During the year 2006, 728 fresh inquiries were authorised by the NAB, thus raising the figure to 1882 (including the backlog).