ABDUL RASHEED AZAD

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has started probing various corruption related matters in the Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL), it is learnt.

In a letter NAB has requested information from the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources as "complaint verification is under process in NAB regarding corruption and corrupt practices in OGDCL".

The Bureau has started investigating the following cases: (i) Corruption in hiring of vehicles on oil fields of OGDCL and pilferage of High Speed Diesel (HSD) through these vehicles; (ii) unjustified, unallocated funds of Rs 600 million in civil and engineering support services in the department during tenure of Raja Arshad Sultan as an acting General Manager (GM); (iii) involvement of officers in corruption in civil and mechanical project/bidding by not following proper procedure for drilling of wells and hiring of consultants especially in wells of Quadirpur; (iv) appointment of Tariq Mahmood Mirza as manager civil in spite of lack of qualification and experience required for the job of civil engineering; (v) involvement of Habib ur Rehman Private Secretary (PS) to Managing director (MD) in exaggerated estimates for pre drilling works and making of fudge bills claims of contractor; (vi) awarding a contract of mechanical engineering and pipelines without following Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) rules; (vii) illegal construction of 18 private houses for the officers of civil and engineering supply services through m/s Taj & Company (A contractor of OGDCL). (viii) Huge difference in estimated and sublets amount of BANJARO pipelines and its allied civil works.