NAB releases annual report 2019.

LAHORE -- National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Lahore collectively received 13,000 applications related with corruption and mismanagement from people from which 235 Complaint Verifications (CVs) were authorized during 2019. According to the NAB spokesman, major number of complaints received with NAB Lahore proved to be away from NAB's domain and ultimately got cancelled while around 122 complaints were referred to other departments. About 72 complaints were upgraded into inquiry level while 52 CVs of the total were closed down during the scrutiny process. Some direct inquiries were also authorized over 28 complaints, whereas, at the end of 2019 138 CVs were underway in the NAB Lahore. In the past years, the NAB Lahore had been receiving 4000 complaints average per year and the increased number of complaints depicted public trust over the NAB. Year 2018 transferred 202 inquiries into 2019 while the NAB Executive Board authorized 100 fresh Inquiries in 2019. Moreover, 75 inquiries were closed down or referred to other departments, whereas, two Inquiries were merged into other cases. During 2019, five direct investigations were authorized and another 31 inquiries were also upgraded into investigation level.

At the end of 2019, a total of 194 inquiries were being probed in the NAB Lahore. The NAB Lahore investigation teams had been authorized 36 investigations during 2019, whereas, 49 investigations were transferred from last year into 2019. One ongoing investigation was completed through holding Plea Bargain (PB) while 25 corruption references were...