LAHORE – A River in Pakistan is producing gold worth billions, it has beenrevealed from an inquiry of the Punjab Anti Corruption department.
Illegal extraction of gold worth billions of rupees is being done fromIndus River near Attock Khurd village.
The Punjab Anti-Corruption Department on has registered a case againstPunjab Mines and Minerals Department officials and others.
The anti-corruption department has registered a case against fivegovernment employees, including former DG Mines and Mineral DepartmentZafar Javed, ex-deputy director Rashid Latif, former managers RafiullahKhan and Rizwan Saqib Bajwa, former geologist Usman Ali, and contractorMukhtar Ahmed, who is the director of Haihong Superpak (Pvt) Ltd.
According to the FIR, not only a new zone, with placer gold deposits, wasillegally created for extracting gravel and sand in the riverbank, but alsoallegedly allowed for illegal extraction of gold worth billions of rupees.
The enquiry team was constituted on July 26, following complaints ofawarding the contract on a reduced price.
Investigators have claimed that the creation of new zone for gravel andsand on Indus River bank near Wessa Khurd, Attock was illegal andunjustified and allowed with mala-fide intentions to pave the way forextraction of placer gold from the site.
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The Punjab Anti-Corruption Department on Tuesday registered a case againstPunjab Mines and Minerals Department officials and others for illegalextraction of gold worth billions of rupees from Indus River near AttockKhurd village.
The anti-corruption department has registered a case against fivegovernment employees, including former DG Mines and Mineral DepartmentZafar Javed, ex-deputy director Rashid Latif, former managers RafiullahKhan and Rizwan Saqib Bajwa, former geologist Usman Ali, and contractorMukhtar Ahmed, who is the director of Haihong Superpak (Pvt) Ltd.
According to the FIR, not only a new zone, with placer gold deposits, wasillegally created for extracting gravel and sand in the riverbank, but alsoallegedly allowed for illegal extraction of gold worth billions of rupees.
The enquiry team was constituted on July 26, following complaints ofawarding the contract on a reduced price.
Investigators have claimed that the creation of new zone for gravel andsand on Indus River bank near Wessa Khurd, Attock was illegal andunjustified and allowed with mala-fide intentions to pave the way forextraction of placer gold from the site.
