ISLAMABAD: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has initiated inquiry againstretired senior military officials over corruption allegations in newIslamabad Airport project.
34 officials are facing charges of corruption in the project of NewIslamabad International Airport.
The interior ministry in its written reply shared with the Senate thedetails of an inquiry conducted by FIA in the alleged embezzlement in theconstruction of New Islamabad International Airport.
According to the FIA inquiry, a total 13 retired officers of Pakistan Armyand Pakistan Air Force (PAF) have been allegedly found involved in thecorruption scandal including one each retired lieutenant general and airmarshal, two retired major generals, six retired air vice-marshals, tworetired brigadiers and one retired air commodore.
The inquiry found that out of the total 34 accused, 10 are primary accusedand 24 people are secondary accused while two retired army brigadiers areamong the primary accused and all other retired army and air forceofficials are out of the secondary accuse.
The House was informed that 10 primary accused include former projectdirectors of the new airport Brig (retd) Iftikhar Ali, Brig (retd) BilalHameed, M Musharraf Khan and Vikram S Sodha; Asif Basheer Ahmad and MRoohullah, ex-director planning and development Civil Aviation Authority(CAA); and Yousaf Kamal, former director works and development CAA.
The primary accused also include senior officials of the Project ManagementConsultant, LBG USA & ECIL, Karachi; Design Consultants of AirsideInfrastructure: ADPI France & NESPAK Pakistan; and Design Consultants ofPTB: CPG Singapore & ARCOP Karachi.
The 24 secondary accused include retired military officials; ex-chairmanCivil Aviation Authority (CAA) Board Lt General (retd) Tariq Waseem, formermembers of the CAA Board Major General (retd) Mir Haider Ali Khan, MajorGeneral (retd) Ashraf Chaudhry, Air Marshal (retd) Rashid Kaleem and AVM(retd) Shahid Latif; ex-directors general CAA AVM (retd) Khalid Ch and AirCommodore (retd) Junaid Ameen; ex-deputy DGs of CAA AVM (retd) Ritz ul Haq,and AVM (retd) Salid Habib; and ex-Deputy DOs CAA AVM (retd) Junaid AhmadSiddiqui and AVM (retd) M Safdar Khan.