Accountability court convicts Punjab revenue dept official in corruption reference
Lahore: The Lahore's Accountability Court Thursday convicted a Revenue department official for three years imprisonment along with court fine worth Rs36 million in a corruption reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau Lahore.


According to a spokesman, the NAB Lahore initiated an inquiry against accused Patwari Muhammad Naveed in March 2016 following some secret complaints lodged against him regarding pilling up of assets allegedly disproportionate to his known sources of income.
Moreover, the inquiry proceeding got upgraded into the investigation level in December 2016 after discovering multiple unexplained bank transactions of millions landed into accused personal bank accounts.
Investigation proceedings revealed that Naveed got appointed as Patwari (BPS-5) in 1990 and consequently got dismissed from service as Patwari (BPS-9) in 2016 under the PEEDA Act 2006.
The NAB arrested the said accused during the course of ongoing investigation in March 2017 and was sent to judicial custody. A corruption reference was also filed by the NAB Lahore in the accountability court during 2017.
The spokesman said the NAB has an overall conviction ratio of 66.8 per cent.

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