Islamabad, March 17: Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau (NAB) initiated proceedings against retired four-star general Ahsan Saleem Hayat and senior officers of the National Logistics Cell (NLC), Dawn reported on Thursday. The probe was initiated based on a complaint filed by ex-major Akram Raza who had also served in the same organization. Major Raza had in 2015 filed a petition in the Lahore High Court, in which he had claimed that several military officers had been dismissed from service as they had been running an illegal crude oil business that had caused a loss of Rs 20 million per day to the country’s exchequer. Major Raza was seeking his arrears and the amount of the fine imposed on him by the military authorities. In the petition, Major Raza had named 17 individuals, including two officers of the rank of lieutenant colonels, three majors, six soldiers of varying ranks and four civilians, whom he accused of embezzling oil and were dismissed by the military authorities on January 26, 2005 for running their “illegal crude oil business”. Major Raza had claimed that he was not part of the group of individuals who were dismissed, but the one who had actually pointed out the “theft and illegal sale” of crude oil and was arrested and detained for no reason and that he had been under tremendous pressure by the NLC administration to “cooperate with the crude oil mafia and when he refused, he was threatened [with] dire consequences. UNI
Comments are closed.