Justice Javed Iqbal, Chairman NAB chaired a meeting to review overallperformance of NAB at NAB headquarters.
He said that Transparency International (TI) Pakistan and world EconomicForum have appreciated NAB’s overall performance in eradication ofcorruption and corrupt practices especially the report of TransparencyInternational Pakistan issued on July 30, 2020 in which Mr. Sohail MuzaffarChairman Transparency International (TI) Pakistan has stated that NAB underthe leadership of Honorable Mr. Justice Javed Iqbal, Chairman NAB,anti-corruption drive has resulted in an excellent impact much needed sinceits inception, and NAB has so far made recovery of Rs 466 Billion which isa remarkable achievement.
Transparency International Pakistan has been working with NAB since 2000,on awareness and preventive efforts to eradicate corruption, and has heldmany workshops, trainings, and seminars, especially on NAB’s interactionwith business community and bureaucrats, assisting in NACS, UNCAC etc.
*Justice Javed Iqbal, Chairman NAB said that NAB is determined to eradicatecorruption in all its forms and manifestations as corruption is the motherof all evils. In order to further improve the quality of inquiries andinvestigations on the basis of solid and documentary evidence, NAB hasstarted combine investigation Team (CIT) system in order to conductinquiries and investigations comprising of one senior investigationofficer, one junior Investigation officer, Additional Directorinvestigation as case officer, legal counsel, financial expert, landrevenue expert and forensic expert under the supervision of Director and DGconcerned to benefit from collective wisdom.
NAB has established its own Pakistan Training and Research Academy in whichspecialized training has been started to impart investigation officers aswell as Prosecutors officers on modern lines in order to conductinvestigations of cases of money laundering and white collar crime cases.NAB has also established Anti Money Laundering Cell in NAB headquarters aswell as witness handling cells in all the regions to improve the standardand quality of investigations as per law*.
NAB is regularly reviewing the performance of NAB through computer basedspecially devised state of art monitoring and evaluation systems but alsophysically inspecting through Chairman NAB’s Inspection and Monitoring Team(CIMT) to further review overall performance of NAB. On the instructions ofChairman NAB, Special complaint cells have been established in NABHeadquarters and all bureaus to listen to the complaints of the businesscommunity as NAB has great regard for the business community which play avital role in the development of the country.
Moreover, Honorable Hussain Asghar, Deputy Chairman NAB has life longexperience in investigation of white collar crime cases. Similarly, ZahirShah, DG Operations NAB and all DGs of Regional Bureaus of NAB are workingvery hard to ensure conduct of complaint verifications, inquiries andInvestigations in an analytical way in order to overcome the shortcoming ifany well in time.