ISLAMABAD  -  The National Accountability Bureau has arrested 476 persons on charges of corruption, authorised 216 complaint verifications, 239 inquiries, 79 investigations and filed 340 corruption references in the respective accountability courts across the country during the last eleven months.

From October 2017 to September 2018, 72 accused persons were convicted by the respective accountability courts in various references of corruption filed by NAB and recovered Rs2,410.250 million.

The NAB since its inception received 394,085 complaints, authorised 13,081 complaint verifications, 8,496 inquiries,

4,101 investigations and filed 3,386 corruption references in the respective accountability courts and recovered Rs297.483 billion from corrupt people and deposited the money into the national exchequer.

Currently, 1,210 corruption references are under process in 26 respected accountability courts across the country against 8,975 accused persons and alleged amount is Rs895.279 billion.