Times of Islamabad

Multan-Sukkur Motorway project: Rs 33 billion systemic corruption reported in previous government tenure

Multan-Sukkur Motorway project: Rs 33 billion systemic corruption reported in previous government tenure

ISLAMABAD – Minister for communications Murad Saeed has said that thecorruption done in mega infrastructure projects will be unearthed and thelooted amount will be recovered.

Addressing media in Islamabad on Friday, he said the ministry ofcommunication has recovered over 4329 million rupees in five month thepresent government.

He said indiscriminate accountability will be continued to bring back thelooted money. He said PTI government will continue transparent andindiscriminate accountability as it was part of PTI’s manifesto.

He said PMLN led-government has signed a MoU for construction ofMultan-Sukkur Motorway with a company worth 259 billion rupees and, later,the cost was increased up to 292 billion rupees due to financialmismanagement and the project suffered a huge loss.