The Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice in its meeting on Wednesday was given a detailed briefing by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) about the number of inquiries, investigations and references during the past three years, says a press release. The meeting was held under the Chairmanship of Senator Muhammad Javed Abbasi here at the Parliament House and was attended among others by the following Senators, Farooq Hameed Naek, Muzaffar Hussain Shah, Ayesha Raza Farooq, Murtaza Wahab, Minister for Law and Justice Bashir Ahmed Wirk, Senior Legislative Advisor Malik Hakam Khan and Deputy Chairman NAB Imtiaz Tajwer.
The NAB deputy chairman and his team told the meeting that a total of 2178 inquiries were authorized to the National Accountability Bureau in 2015, 1016 and 2017 and 2487 inquiries have been finalized including the backlog of previous years. Similarly 1057 investigations were authorized to the NAB in the last three years and 1016 have been finalized. The Committee was told that the conviction rate was 72.7 percent in 2016 and in 2017 it has been 67.3 percent. Total recoveries made in these three years were around RS26.886 billion.-PR