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Rs 400 million irregularities found in Pak Interior Ministry’s accounts |
The Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) has found massive
irregularities worth 400 million rupees in the accounts of the Pakistani Interior
Ministry. The AGP report, in particular, expressed shock over the ministry’s wing
issuing arms licences — about 223 million rupees could not be reconciled. During
2007-2008, the ministry issued 44,558 new arms licences and received 222.98 million
rupees as fees. Audit officials said they could not verify that the amount paid
through challans had actually been credited to government account, The Dawn reports.
The ministry was asked to produce a reconciliation report before the audit committee,
but it failed to provide any. The report said, the concern was shared with the
interior ministry officials in June last year and it was suggested that arms licences
should only be issued after verifying that fees had been deposited with the treasury
office concerned. In the absence of proper reconciliation of receipts, risk of
arms licences being issued against fake challans was very high, it noted. This
year, the interior ministry witnessed an unauthorised issuance of arms licences
scam. During physical inspection of the interior ministry, 1.046 million rupees
were found missing. The ministry’s explained that money had been spent to meet
departmental expenditures. A review of the record indicated that the money was
spent for irrelevant purposes. According to the report, the Islamabad Capital
Police had refused to transfer 32.5 million rupees which it had received against
licence, parking and vehicle checking fees. |
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