Auditor General (AG) from Pakistan assessed the National Assembly’s Public Accounting Committee (PAC) on Thursday on over RS37 million sub -offers from government officials in Benazir Income Support Program Funds.
PAC members were told that a total of 324 officials from class 1 to class 22 are involved in the scandal.
The committee decided that AG should be sent all data from these government employees and money had to be recovered from their wages. The FIA should conduct the investigation quickly and submit criminal cases, opinated committee members. Guilt officers should be terminated, they added.
Bisp officials informed the committee of another bomber, where 84 individuals who received money were in fact deceased. They told the committee that they were in contact with the banks to review how such payments were made.
Another case of scams showed up and cost Bisp RS13.72m. The amount was paid through false biometric verifications across several tehsils, the committee was told.
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Further revelations of financial management emerged as RS80,508m in Bisp funds were allegedly paid to non -eligible individuals. Bisp officials assured the committee that the recovery effort was underway.
Meanwhile, audit reports on the poverty control department reported for the years 2020-21, 2021-2022 and 2022-2023, financial irregularities worth RS96B, the committee was informed.
It was concluded that many recipients of the funds had inactive accounts. The committee members decided that if there is no activity in the recipient’s account for nine months, the amount sent must be obtained.
Bisp individuals have become involved in financial fraud many times over the years, where a fraud of RS141B was discovered earlier this year. By 2020, a survey was initiated against 2,700 Bisp officers for financial crimes.
