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 filed into Accountability

Courts after completing their Investigations.

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