Director General NAB Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Brigadier Farooq Naser Awan (retd) has said NAB will provide relief to the general public through accountability regime in the light of the vision of Chairman NAB former Justice Javed Iqbal for the prosperity of people of this province. This he said will addressing at the Director Conference held at NAB (KP) Tuesday.

In the meeting, performance of NAB Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for the year 2017 was reviewed. During the year 2017, NAB (KP) have successfully completed cases of cheating public at large related to over billing and utilization of cess fund cases for relief and facilitation of general public and return looted money to the national exchequer.

The Bureau conducted inquiries and investigations of cases worth more than Rs 36122 million. During year 2017 KP Bureau recovered Rs 672 million in direct and indirect recoveries.

The Director General was apprised that the Bureau received a total of 3,624 complaints during the calendar year 2017. The bureau successfully disposed-off all the complaints. After the scrutiny, the Bureau carried out Complaint Verification (Preliminary inquiry) in 252 complaints. At the end Farooq Naser Awan DG NAB (KP) has said that Chairman NAB, since his assuming the charge, has time and again vowed and stressed that NAB, through effective accountability mechanism, will ensure transparency and improvement in service delivery so that relief is provided to general public.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2018