A significant recruitment scandal has emerged within the Capital Development Authority (CDA), where appointments were allegedly secured in flagrant violation of established rules and procedures through the use of forged academic qualifications, fabricated school certificates, forged driving licenses and forged experience documents. The Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Anti-Corruption Circle, Islamabad, has now filed a formal case against 58 former officers and employees – from Scale-4 to Scale-14, including senior technicians and sub-engineers – on charges of cheating, fraud, corruption and other related offences. The investigation will also establish the involvement of the CDA officials responsible for the illegal recruitment and subsequent regularization of 24 patwaris appointed in violation of the provincial provisional quota, as well as the role of all persons who facilitated these irregular appointments. Two separate investigations had been ongoing since 2022 within the FIA Islamabad Zone’s Anti-Corruption Circle regarding the induction of CDA personnel on the basis of forged academic degrees, fabricated experience and school leaving certificates and forged driving licences. Upon completion of these investigations, conducted under the supervision of Deputy Director Afzal Khan Niazi, it was determined that the educational credentials, certificates and driving licenses of 58 civil servants serving from Basic Scale-4 to Scale-14 were allegedly forged or otherwise fraudulent. Following these findings, Director FIA Islamabad Zone, Shehzad Nadeem Bukhari, approved the registration of a formal case. As a result, a case was initiated against former sub-engineer Muhammad Saghir; senior technicians Muhammad Saleem, Waqar Hussain, Amjad Ali and others; thirteen security guards including Manzoor Elahi; Supervisor Safdar Hussain; nine drivers including Tahir Abbas; eight tube well operators such as Muhammad Afzal; as well as baildars, lift operators, naib-qasids, clerks and the rest of the employees involved. The accused also include a female employee, Sofia, who served as a store clerk, along with security guard Ali Raza, posted at the Presidential Secretariat, CDA Maintenance Division. Additionally, the list of suspects includes a senior technician at CDA Capital Hospital, Amjad Ali; OT Assistant Muhammad Akram; ward boy Malik Imtiaz; and two naib-qasids, Muhammad Khan and Muhammad Nazir. The FIR further reveals that these appointments were made in violation of the provincial merit quota and were subsequently regularized by the CDA administration. The investigation will now determine the responsibility of the CDA officials and employees who facilitated the recruitment of these 58 persons on the basis of forged documents.
Massive counterfeiting scam rocker CDA
