ISLAMABAD – The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has referred Rs 110 million embezzlement case of defunct Tawana Pakistan Project (TPP) to the National Accountability Bureau. The project deprecator Irfanullah and a few of his aides have been accused of scam.
TPP was a Musharraf era pilot health project (2003-2005). According to FIA sources, project director Irfanullah was still at large but the agency had arrested some of his accomplices involved in making fraudulent purchases worth Rs 110 million from fake companies on various accounts.
The source said two of Irfanullah’s accomplices, Muhammad Ashraf and Ashiq Hussain Sangi were in jail while a female employee Shazia Mughis, involved in the case, managed to get bail on medical grounds.
The source further revealed that FIA had recovered from TPP office record of fake receipts showing expenditure on advertisements, renovation and construction of project offices at Laki Marwat, D.G Khan, Pak Pattan, Badin, Gwadar, Turbat, and renovation of a former minister’s residence.
Names of fake companies recovered from TPP record included Office Aids, Global Business System, Paramount Business Center, MTA Enterprises, Office Automation Traders and Mahaba Marketing Services. FIA hopes that with the NAB now investigating the case, the wanted project director would be apprehended soon.
