Pak Generals named in Rs 75m loan scam
Islamabad, Nov. 3: Two Pakistan Army generals have been found to be involved in a Rs 75 million scam, a parliamentary committee was told. The top Army officers gave a huge loan to a power company without any guarantees.
The Public Accounts Committee meeting was informed that the generals, who were with the National Logistics Cell, gave the loan without guarantees. The firm never returned the money, the Express Tribune reported on Wednesday.
The loan was given to the company which was payable by December 31, 2007. But the loan was never returned.
The two Generals, both of whom have retired — Lt. Gen. Muhammad Afzal and Maj. Gen. Khalid Zaheer Akhtar — were held responsible by the auditor general.
Gen. Junaid Rehmat, a top NLC official who appeared before the committee, admitted that the actions of his predecessors were not defensible.
The PAC members were also told that 88 vehicles, including seven luxury Prado cruiser, were imported duty-free by the NLC’s top officials by using fake certificates that testified that they were being imported for defence purposes.
This is the second scam to hit the NLC that was troubled with a `.1.8 billion scam involving three military officers. The three officers were found guilty of making investment in the nation’s volatile bourses after borrowing cash from the banks. They eventually lost it.
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