KARACHI – Interpol has been requested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for the issuance of arrest warrants against “all corrupt elements” who have escaped the country in the past for trial before a Pakistani court of law, claimed the Agency’s Sindh Director Muazzam Jah at a press conference on Thursday.
Jah demanded that the Pakistan Steel Mills provide the FIA with names of all those involved in the corruption case of Rs 22 billion. He said that although the FIA arrested the National Insurance Corporation (NICL) Chairman Ayaz Niazi and six others, another accused, Ameen Qasim Dada, was still at large but had not fled the country.
FIA is the complainant in all 10 cases of embezzlement in Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM), but despite clear instructions from the National Assembly’s standing committee, the PSM has not initiated an inquiry in this regard.
As many as 15 accused persons have been arrested in the PSM corruption case, while a probe is being conducted to recover Rs 26 billion, the DG said, adding that the FIA have recovered Rs 50 million from Abbas Akbar Ali, director of Amrely Steel Mills.
Jah said that the FIA has found embezzlement of Rs 12 billion in the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP); former TC chairman Muhammad Malik and some directors of the corporation have been arrested in this regard.
