Tag: Scam

ISLAMABAD/lAHORE - In what may be termed a pre-alliance sweetener to lure the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leadership into a half-cooked power-sharing deal, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) government removed Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Additional Director General Zafar Ahmed Qureshi from heading the team investigating the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam, a case in which the PML-Q's Moonis Elahi is a suspect currently in FIA custody.
Ever since

LAHORE - Investigation into the National Insurance Corporation Limited (NICL) scam took a new turn when the newly-appointed Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Malik Iqbal appointed another investigator to the same case and reduced the scope of investigations handled by Additional Director General (ADG) Zafar Qureshi, the investigator already appointed to the case.
Well-placed sources in the FIA told Pakistan Today that Iqbal had taken the step on special orders

KARACHI - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday revealed that it had decided to send a team to the UK to arrest Amin Qasim Dada, the main accused in the National Insurance Corporation Ltd scam.
The announcement was made at a press conference in Karachi by FIA Sindh Director Moazzam Jah. "The decision to this effect was made after FIA issued a Red Warrant for Dada," Jah said, referring to the international arrest warrant which a country's government lodges with

ISLAMABAD - With the Supreme Court already annoyed with the government for delaying the implementation of its orders and assignment of investigation into mega scams to honest and upright officials, the government has once again transferred a senior Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) official at the final stage of investigation into the haj scam.
A source in the FIA told Pakistan Today that the transfer of FIA Director Hussain Asghar and his posting as Gilgit-Baltistan inspector

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to take action against the accused involved in over Rs 22 billion corruption in Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM). A three-member Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani was hearing the case of massive corruption in PSM. The court also directed the industries secretary to continue supervising the investigations. During the

LAHORE - Five students of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) have been suspended and fined over the alleged embezzlement of Rs 1 million during the recently organised Young Leaders Entrepreneur Summit (YLES) 2011.
The students, whose names Pakistan Today has chosen to withhold, violated the rules by registering 200 extra students, on the pretext that they were 'breaking even' and needed more money to run the event. Sources revealed the fraud was disclosed two

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has unearthed another scandal involving the Interior Ministry where 248 people, including journalists and politicians, were sent for a "free Haj" at the expense of pilgrims' money deposited with the Religious Affairs Ministry in 2010.
A source in the FIA told Pakistan Today that investigation into the scandal revealed that 248 people were recommended by Interior Ministry officials, upon verbal instructions from Interior Minister

LAHORE - After the much-publicised Haj scam, it should not be a surprise for anyone if one day you hear about an Umra scandal. The reason is simple. The travel agents with connivance of the national flag carrier are all set to fleece innocent pilgrims.
Aviation industry experts estimate that Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)'s partnership with some blue-eyed travel agents will cost around Rs 1.6 billion to the general public. A survey conducted by Pakistan Today reveals that

NEW DELHI - The Indian army has developed a lucrative sideline in running luxury golf courses on rent-free government land, the nation's auditor has claimed in a damning new report on corruption. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) found that at least 32 square kilometres (12 square miles) of rent-free land had been handed to a privately-run company, Army Zone Golf, which operates 97 luxury golf courses.
The auditor also found the army had bought golf carts and passed them

KARACHI - The Federal Anti-Corruption Court issued a show-cause notice on Friday to the superintendent of the Karachi Central Jail for failing to bring former National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) chairman Ayaz Khan Niazi, who has been accused for financial scam, to the court.
The prison official was ordered to submit an explanation for failing to comply with the court's order, whereas the jail superintendent was also issued directives for ensuring that the main accused,

NEW DELHI - India's opposition parties on Wednesday mounted a united attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after he denied any knowledge of an alleged cash-for-votes scandal. The opposition targeted Singh after US cables released by WikiLeaks last week said his government had allegedly paid cash to lawmakers to win a key 2008 confidence vote for a nuclear technology deal with the US. "The prime minister has to take responsibility (for the scandal), he is the head of the government,"

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

ISLAMABAD - After a lapse of 45 days - the deadline set by the government for the judicial commission to complete its probe into the sugar price increase scam - no one from political and government circles knows if the judicial commission has presented its inquiry report to the government or not, or what are the investigation's findings in case the probe has been completed, and who was behind the scandal.
A single-member judicial commission on sugar price hike scam comprising

ISLAMABAD - The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was informed on Saturday that the inquiry conducted by the General Headquarters (GHQ) into mega financial scam of the National Logistic Cell (NLC) would be provided to it soon. Opposition leader Nisar Ali Khan, who chaired the meeting, praised the Ministry of Defence and the GHQ for their cooperation with the PAC in probing the NLC scam. "I also received a message from a very senior official in the GHQ that the inquiry into the financial

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its verdict on a joint petition against irregularities of over Rs 25 billion in the leasing of 1,128 kanals of Railways' land in Lahore to a Malaysian consortium associated with two Lahore-based companies - Husnain Construction Company (Pvt) Ltd and Unicon Consulting Service (Pvt) Ltd, which constructed Royal Palm Golf and Country Club Lahore on the land.
A two-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and

KARACHI - The inquiry report into the acquittal of eight suspects in Khanani and Kalia money laundering case was sent to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudry on Monday. Earlier, Justice Sajjad Ali Shah had presented the sealed report to Sindh High Court (SHC) Chief Justice Musheer Alam. The SHC chief justice had initiated a probe on the directive of CJP, who took suo motu notice of the comments from Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General

LAHORE - The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) on Saturday sent on forced retirement three sub engineers and building inspectors for involvement in the construction of illegal high-rise buildings in the city while departmental proceedings against another official were dropped due to his death.
The officials sent on retirement are Riaz Akhtar Khokhar, Aamir Rashid and Pervaiz Khurshid Shah while Muhammad Farooq has died. The High Rise Commission, constituted under the directions