ISLAMABAD - The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has sent a list of illegal housing societies of Islamabad and Rawalpindi Division to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for further action. An official of NAB said that NAB Rawalpindi completed a list of illegal housing societies in federal capital and Rawalpindi and sent it to FIA for future course of action. He said that the Bureau declared that the officials of regulators are involved in issuing of licences to different housing societies. Last year, Chairman NAB Justice (Retd) Javed Iqbal had taken notice of alleged China-cutting, illegal housing and cooperative societies in the federal capital, has assigned DG NAB Rawalpindi to investigate it thoroughly.
It had come into the notice of NAB that some elements are making billions out of fraudulent activities through sales of plots in different housing and cooperative societies without taking layout plan and NOC from CDA. NAB had also learnt that some elements are making China-cutting practices in the capital city as prevalent in Karachi.
The Chairman NAB taking notice of these complaints assigned the DG NAB Rawalpindi to probe these instances and complaints.