KARACHI: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday arrested three former senior officials of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and a caterer who allegedly caused millions of rupees loss to the exchequer during their service.

A statement issued by the FIA said the agency arrested former director and chief of aviation security retired Air Commodore Gulzar Ahmed Janjua, senior joint director finance of disbursement Mohammed Shak­oor Abbassi, assistant director electronics Shaikh Mehboob and chief executive officer of the Al Mubarak Caterers and Decorators, who was awarded illegal contracts.

“It has been established that accused retired Air Commodore Gulzar Ahmed Janjua as chief of aviation security caused a wrongful loss of millions of rupees to the public exchequer on account of criminal omissions made by him in award of PCAA land, ie jogging track of CAA Club, in collusion with co-accused namely Mohammed Shakoor Abbasi, Shaikh Mehboob and provided wrongful benefit to Mohammed Raza, chief executive officer of the Al Mubarak Caterers and Decorators,” said the statement.

The FIA claimed to have found enough evidence

aga­inst the former officials, who during their services in 2011 violated set rules to benefit a certain bidder and failed to answer queries raised during initial investigation.

“The accused retired Air Commodore Gulzar Ahmed Janjua being the then president of the CAA Club Karachi awarded jogging track of the club in July-August 2011 to Al Mubarak Caterers and Decorators for five years on licence agreement by means of cheat and fraud and corrupt practice in violation to said regulations of the PCAA. Neither he was a member of the tender committee nor any formality of tender was observed,” added the statement.

Published in Dawn, July 3rd, 2015

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