SUKKUR: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Sukkur claimed to have recovered 60,000 missing wheat bags worth 250 million on Monday.
According to sources, on a tip-off, NAB conducting the raids on godowns of Kashmore and Kandhkot area of Sindh.
NAB Sukkur along with respective civil and judicial magistrates had conducted the raids on the food godowns of Kashmore and Kandhkot and recovered 60,000 missing wheat bags worth Rs. 250 million, sources added. The NAB team in the presence of the respective civil and judicial magistrates had also sealed the godowns.
Earlier it emerged that 168,000 metric tonnes of wheat bags had been reported missing from different storage facilities in Sindh.
This is the biggest theft of wheat from the government’s storage facility which costs Rs 7 billion. It had now been learned that Chief Secretary Sindh had handed over the matter for an inquiry to the anti-corruption department.
There had been allegations of misappropriation of wheat stock available at Provisional Reserve Centers (PRCs) in over nine different districts namely Sukkur, Larkana, Ghotki, Khairpur, Naushehro Feroze, Shaheed Benazirabad, Sanghar, Kashmore, Kandhkot, Qamber and Shahdadkot.
It had been further revealed that wheat worth Rs1.05 billion went missing near Nooriabad while en route to Karachi.
This was confirmed by the Food Department but no action had been taken by the provincial government. These practices are becoming the norm and lead to wheat and flour crises by creating artificial shortages as seen earlier this year.Â
