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NAB chief exceeds Transparency claims on corruption figures

Ansar Abbasi
Sunday, July 01, 2012


ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman Admiral (retd) Fasih Bukhari’s latest disclosure that Pakistan loses up to Rs8 billion a day in corruption, has exceeded even the otherwise massive corruption figures of Transparency International Pakistan (TIP).

The TIP has evaluated that corruption of Rs8500 billion took place during the first four years of the PPP regime (led by the sacked PM Gilani) but the per day corruption figure — Rs8 billion — as now given by the NAB chairman, means a corruption figure of Rs2.9 trillion in one year and Rs11.6 trillion in four years.

Recently, in an informal chat with The News, the NAB chairman had told this correspondent that that oil mafia, agriculture cartel and tax evasion/theft contribute to a daily loss of Rs5 billion, which meant Rs150 billion in one month and Rs1,800 billion a year.

However, on Saturday while addressing a press conference, the NAB chairman said that more than Rs6 to Rs8 billion corruption occurs in a day in the country. This disclosure of the NAB chairman has given far gloomier picture as compared to the TIP in respect to mounting corruption in Pakistan.

The Transparency International had recently reported that Pakistan had lost more than Rs8,500 billion (Rs8.5 trillion or $94 billion) in corruption, tax evasion and bad governance during the four years tenure of the recently sacked Gilani’s regime but these figures were strongly contested by the PPP government and its leaders.

Although the NAB chairman did not give the details of the massive corruption in Pakistan but the TIP had pointed out corruption of Rs390 billion in 2008, Rs450 billion in 2009, Rs825 billion in 2010 and Rs1,100 billion in 2011 under the present government. The total corruption from these identified cases is Rs2,765 billion.

In addition, according to the TIP, the minister of finance of the government himself confirmed corruption in the FBR of over Rs500 billion per year, which makes the total Rs2,000 billion; the auditor general of Pakistan pointed out Rs315 billion corruption in 2010; Public Accounts Committee recovered Rs115 billion in 30 months till 2011; circular debt is Rs190 billion; KESC was given Rs55 billion illegal benefits per annum since 2008; state-owned enterprises like PSO, PIA, Pakistan Steel, Railways, SSGC, SNGC are eating away Rs150-300 billion per annum; the tax to GDP ratio in 2008 was 11%, which in 2011 has come down to 9.1% instead of being increased.

During the Gilani’s regime, his government’s perception worldwide has been one of the most corrupt in the world as the corrupt and plunderers of national wealth were protected, rewarded and even offered key positions instead of being tried and pushed behind the bars. It was because of the bad repute of the regime that even during times of natural disasters like devastating floods, which hit Pakistan in the recent years, the world capitals opted not to give anything in cash to the PPP government.

Ironically the anti-corruption state institutions like NAB and FIA have been filled with tamed and tainted officials to protect the corruption of the mighty and powerful. The NAB chairman though talked to the massive corruption, he and his organisation did little to curb the same. Instead the NRO corruption cases have been settled to the advantage of the accused through friendly prosecution of the NAB.

In regard to the corruption cases of the PPP’s present tenure like Haj scam, Pakistan Steel plunder, Railways corruption, Rental Power loot and others, neither the FIA nor the NAB probed the cases fairly only because of the involvement of their political masters. No less than the Supreme Court, has repeatedly expressed its dissatisfaction over the role of the NAB and FIA in protecting the corrupt.


http://www.thenews.c...ruption-figures

[Chief of army staff]

I hope somebody will kill the zardari ku t t a

[Jazba-e-Kashmir]

brother chief:

if you said that to zardari he would reply

"it is your point of view"

"aap kiy raaiy hai"

Peace

[Felicius]

http://www.weeklybli...e-corruption-in



Cynical politics and massive corruption in Pakistan

by Preeta Memon
September 19, 2012



A self confessed corrupt and 'mentally insane' individual like Asif Ali Zardari has been surprisingly able continuing in the office of Pakistan's presidency, despite the proven fact of his involvements in series of corruptions during the tenure of his wife, Benazir Bhutto – who had created ugliest example of high-profile corruption, thus stealing public fund worth billions of dollars and shifting the same into various hidden accounts in the world. Commenting on Pakistani politics and high-profile corruption, The Guardian said, "…The corruption charges against Zardari date back to the governments of his late wife, Benazir Bhutto, in the 1990s. Charges against him, the present prime minister, Yusuf Raza Gillani, and other leading politicians and former officials were dropped under the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) of 2007: the product of a deal – allegedly brokered by the Bush administration – between the then military ruler, President Pervez Musharraf, and Bhutto in late 2007, which allowed her to return from exile and take part in elections.

"In December 2009, the Supreme Court declared the NRO unconstitutional. The two years since have seen a slow-motion tug of war between the supreme court and the government. The main opposition party, the Pakistan Muslim League of Nawaz Sharif (PMLN), for quite a while did not push this issue very hard, in part as the result of a truce between its provincial government in Punjab and the Zardari government in Islamabad – but also, it is widely thought, because, given its own record, the PMLN has good reasons to fear judicial activism. The only leading opposition politician consistently to have backed the chief justice's campaign has been Imran Khan – and he has never been in government.

"The truth is that Pakistani politics revolves in large part around politicians' extraction of resources from the state by means of corruption, and their distribution to those politicians' followers through patronage. Radically changing this would mean gutting the existing Pakistani political system like a fish. Nor is it at all certain how popular the process would really be with most Pakistanis."

The Guardian further said, "And this is not just a matter of cynical politics. It also obeys a fundamental moral imperative of local culture to be loyal to one's followers and, above all, one's kinfolk. The politician who is really despised is the kleptocrat who both steals immoderately and does not share the proceeds. As a result, a good deal of the proceeds of corruption does get distributed through parts of society, thereby helping to maintain what until recently has been the surprising underlying stability of the Pakistani political system.

"The military is widely seen as relatively immune to corruption, and when it comes to its own internal workings, this is largely true – though it usually ceases to be true when generals go into politics. However, it is vitally important to note that this is in large part because for many decades the military as a whole has acted as a kind of giant patronage network, extracting a huge share of Pakistan's state resources via the defence budget and other concessions, and spending them on itself. Because – to its credit – it has distributed the resulting benefits in an orderly if hierarchical way among its generals, officers, non-commissioned officers and even to a degree privates, it has managed to keep a lid on corruption within the military itself. However, a belief is growing among ordinary soldiers, not just that the generals' perks are immoderate but that in some cases their families are using their connections to make huge corrupt fortunes outside the military.

"As for Zardari, it seems highly doubtful that he can hang on much longer. The chief justice is pursuing him with bulldog determination and the letter of the law is on his side. The military has been infuriated by what it believes are his attempts to ally with Washington against it. It does not want another military government, but it does want a civilian regime that is much more responsive to its wishes. And the opposition want him out before, not after, senate elections that might just enable him to cling to the presidency even if as expected his Pakistan People's party is defeated in general elections due by early 2013. Whether getting rid of Zardari will fundamentally change Pakistani politics, however, is a very different matter."

A major report was published in January 1998 by The New York Times detailing Zardari's vast corruption and misuse of public funds. The report discussed US$200 million in kickbacks to Zardari and a Pakistani partner for a US$4 billion contract with French military contractor Dassault Aviation, in a deal that fell apart only when the Bhutto government was dismissed. It contained details of two payments of US$5 million each by a gold bullion dealer in return for a monopoly on gold imports. It had information from Pakistani investigators that the Bhutto family had allegedly accrued more than US$1.5 billion in illicit profits through kickbacks in virtually every sphere of government activity. It also reported Zardari's mid-1990s spending spree, which included hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on jewellery. The arrangements made by the Bhutto family for their wealth relied on Western property companies, Western lawyers, and a network of Western friends. The report described how Zardari had arranged secret contracts, painstaking negotiations, and the dismissal of anyone who objected to his dealings.

Citibank, already under fire for its private-banking practices, got into further trouble as a result of the report. Zardari's financial history was one case study in a 1999 U.S. Senate report on vulnerabilities in banking procedures.

In 2005, Daily Pakistan reported he was the second richest man in Pakistan with an estimated net worth of US$1.8 billion. He amassed great wealth while his wife was Prime Minister. In 2007, he received US$60 million in his Swiss bank account through offshore companies under his name. He was reported to have estates in Surrey, West End of London, Normandy, Manhattan, and Dubai, as well as a 16th century chateau in Normandy. In Britain, he used a common legal device—the purchase of property through nominees with no family link to the Bhuttos. His homes in Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad are called Bilawal House I, Bilawal House II, and Zardari House respectively.

He bought a 365-acre (148-hectare) 20-bedroom luxury estate in Rockwood, Surrey in 1995 through a chain of firms, trusts, and offshore companies in 1994. The country home's refurbishment abruptly ended in October 1996, shortly before the end of his wife's second term. He initially denied for eight years that he owned the property and no one paid the bills for the work on the unoccupied mansion. Creditors forced a liquidation sale in 2004 and the Pakistani government claimed the proceeds because the home had been bought with money obtained through corruption. However, he stepped in to claim that he actually was the beneficial owner. As of November 2008