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Chairman National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Justice(R) Javed Iqbal has said that NAB is determined to take the mega corruption cases to logical conclusions as per law as corruption is the root cause of all evils plaguing the country.
The chairman’s remarks came while chairing a meeting to review the monthly performance of prosecution, operation, and awareness and prevention divisions of NAB.
Iqbal expressed that NAB’s policy is to make Pakistan corruption free through enhanced awareness, prevention and implementation of law across the country.
He said that the present management of NAB has developed a monitoring and evaluation system (MES) to monitor the performance of NAB, headquarters and all regional bureaus of NAB on a regular basis in order to plug loopholes if any.
The MES system not only helped in increasing operational, prosecution, monitoring and evaluation abilities of NAB. The main features of this system are to register complaints, scrutinize, inquiry, investigation and other details of cases and also preserve the details about NAB cases.
Iqbal said that the MES system is capable of analyzing quality and quantity of cases, adding that NAB has a fixed time frame of 10 months to conclude complaint verification, inquiry, investigation, and filing of corruption references in accountability courts.
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NAB wishes to see corruption-free Pakistan
Taking benefit of collective wisdom of senior supervisory staff, the chairman said, NAB has devised the system of collective investigation and positive results of collective investigation system has started pouring in.
Justice(R) Javed Iqbal has said that NAB is determined to take the mega corruption cases to logical conclusions as per law as corruption is the root cause of all evils plaguing the country.
Iqbal expressed that NAB’s policy is to make Pakistan corruption free through enhanced awareness, prevention and implementation of law across the country.
He said that NAB has the mandate to devise a policy of awareness, prevention and implementing law under section 33 of NAB Ordinance 1999 in collaboration with governmental and non-governmental organizations, media, civil society, especially with the students of universities and colleges about ill effects of corruption.
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Mega Corruption cases
Following is the list of NAB’s mega corruption cases and their current status till March 31, 2019. The list shows the inquiries under progress, investigations under progress, references under trial inquiries/investigations, closed or merged cases.