Sukkur NAB readies four references on wheat scam.

SUKKUR -- The Sukkur region of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has prepared four references concerning misappropriation of billions of rupees worth of wheat in food department and is ready to file them in accountability court, according to sources.

Sources in the NAB said the references would be filed after seeking formal approval of the bureau's chairman. In this connection, a meeting of NAB's regional board presided over by its Sukkur director general reviewed the scam in Sukkur, Larkana and Shaheed Benazirabad divisions and accorded approval to the references prepared against the corrupt officials of food department.

The sources said the NAB chairman himself had issued directives to file the references over growing complaints about large-scale corruption in food department in different...