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 districts of the province.

The sources said that a reference accused deputy director food Anees-ur-Rehman Mahar, district food controller Mohammad Iqbal Memon and others of Rs128 million corruption and another reference blamed Khairpur district food controller Mohammad Ali Ujjan and others of more than Rs58m graft in the stored grain.

The third reference accused Larkana district food controller Zahid Ali Unnar and others of Rs870m corruption and the fourth blamed Kandhkot-Kashmore’s deputy director of food Fazal Mohammad Bhangwar and others of more than Rs74m graft.

Published in Dawn, May 11th, 2020