ISLAMABAD: A Senate committee was informed on Friday that corruption worth Rs12 billion had been detected in six cooperative housing societies in the capital.

Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Registrar Mohammad Ali provided details about the societies to a subcommittee of the Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat, which met with Senator Kalsoom Parveen in the chair.

He said during special audits of the societies it transpired that Federal Employees Cooperative Housing

Society had embezzled Rs7.5 billion, Sohan Garden Society Rs2.56 billion, Jammu Kashmir Society Rs1.7 billion, Senate Cooperative Society Rs320 million, OGDCL housing society Rs670 million and Garden Society Rs20 million.

Senator Hidayatullah said Intelligence Bureau (IB) had launched the Gulberg Housing Society which was also involved in corruption.

He said IB’s main task was to help government eliminate terrorism and provide security to the citizens but its society was minting money.

The senator said those who made payment in 2013 were yet to get possession of the plots.

The committee directed the CDA and the ICT administration to take steps to resolve issues of the plot owners.

Published in Dawn, January 20th, 2018