NAB arrests 1115, recovers Rs 3.27 billion

National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore has exposed a number of mega corruption cases and arrested about 1115 persons including senior bureaucrats, businessmen, real estate agents, police officials, government and non-government personnel during the last two years. Giving details of NAB Lahore performance, Director General NAB Lahore Major Syed Burhan Ali (Retd) said as many as 281 criminals have been arrested in last two years, 156 arrests were made in 2015 and 125 in 2016.
He said NAB Lahore has filed 974 references in accountability courts and the amount involved was up to Rs 19400.5 million against 655 accused. NAB Lahore's conviction rate remained 53-percent in 2015, while it was 94-percent in 2016 that is the highest percentage in the history of NAB Lahore.
Talking about the recovered money, he said, Rs 1373 million were recovered in 2015 and Rs 1897 million recovered in 2016 with total of Rs 3.27billion in two years. He further said NAB Lahore received 12835 complaints since 2015 from which 12308 were disposed off, while 4866 complaints were received in 2015 from which 4874 were disposed off in the same year and 7969 complaints were received in 2016 from which 7433 were disposed off, till now. In total 207 investigations were authorised and 246 investigations have been disposed off within last two years while NAB Lahore has authorised 1108 investigations since inception from which 1078 Investigations disposed off till date. He said that NAB has adopted 'Zero Tolerance Policy' and a proactive approach to curb corruption and corrupt practices from our society.