Tag: Fraud

NAB arrests accused in Rs7.2b modaraba scam

KARACHI: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has arrested accused Mufti Abdullah Shaukat from UAE in the Rs7.2 billion modaraba scam through Interpol. The accused was wanted...

DEO jailed for seven years in illegal recruitment case

KARACHI: An accountability court on Saturday awarded seven years imprisonment and fine of Rs48.5 million to a District Education Officer (DEO) of Sindh in...

603 fake housing societies fleecing Karachi residents

KARACHI: As many as 603 cooperative societies in the port city have been non-functional since day one and a majority of them are allegedly...

Drivers of ride hailing services in Pakistan fleecing passengers

ISLAMABAD: The much hailed and welcomed ride-sharing services in Pakistan are now falling flat due to the captains' deceitful tactics in a bid to...

NAB files reference against land grabbers in Karachi

KARACHI: Karachi National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has a filed corruption reference against land grabber Javed Iqbal and his accomplices including a man named Qazi...

Payment irregularities of over Rs2 billion uncovered at Multan hospital

MULTAN: An anti-corruption unit on Friday uncovered irregularities amounting to more than Rs2 billion in the purchase of surgical instruments and medicines at Multan’s...

Fraud worth Rs200mn detected in National Savings scheme

A huge fraud has been discovered in the National Savings Scheme, in which insiders have reportedly drawn off around Rs200 million, breaching the trust...

Resident defrauded of Rs2 mln over phone call in Karachi

KARACHI: The Federal Investigation Authority's (FIA) commercial bank circle on Monday said that a Karachi resident was duped of Rs2 million over a phone call from...

Private bank employee ‘caught transferring dam donations to anonymous account’

--Donor claims cashier was hesitant to provide him with proper receipt --Bank clarifies its position, apologises for staff’s 'negligence' LAHORE: Last week Prime Minister Imran Khan spoke...

LHC to take up Fawad Hasan’s petition on Oct 8

LAHORE: A Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench on Thursday fixed a petition, filed by senior bureaucrat Fawad Hasan Fawad against his arrest, for...

Man conned into ‘fake marriage’

ISLAMABAD: A small cattle trader from Pind Dadan Khan, Jhelum became the victim of fraud when he expressed his desire to get married. According to a...

Iraq to try election officials over fraud: judiciary

  BAGHDAD: Iraq will put on trial five election officials in connection with fraud, including vote buying, during the country's May legislative elections, a judicial...

NAB arrests four ‘fraudsters’ in different corruption cases

LAHORE: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore on Thursday arrested four persons allegedly involved in two different corruption cases related to cheating public at large and...

Thatta man comes back from the dead to contest polls

THATTA: A man who died eight years ago is now a contestant in the upcoming general elections from a seat in Thatta, media reports stated...

Israeli PM’s wife charged with fraud, breach of trust

JERUSALEM: Israeli prosecutors on Thursday charged the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with misusing over $100,000 in public funds to order lavish meals...

NAB officer claims Ahad Cheema involved in fraud

LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday said that former director general of Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Ahad Cheema was involved in fraud...

KP NAB arrests former Nestle employee for defrauding people

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday arrested former Nestle Pakistan Limited, Peshawar area sales manager Jamal Khan Khattak for allegedly...