Islamabad- A mind blowing misappropriation scheme is reported by Federal Secretary of the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training Murad Shuaib Khan about the involving of former employees of the National Endowment Scholarships for Talent (NEST) / (PEEF).
According to the FIR, its revealed that a group of former NEST employees had theft a huge amount of Rs. 22.7 million from the organization.
Furthermore, the accused individuals, including Ex-Chief Financial officer Syed Athar Hussain, Ex-chief Internal Audio Omar Safdar, Wife of Ex-manager admin Qurat-ul-Ain Talha, and Ex company secretary Faisal Qasim, used their authorities to withdraw funds through bogus cheques. All of them breached the trust being Government Servants along with the employees of the National Bank branch, Pak Secretariat Islamabad.
During the course of enquiry total 318 cheques of fake amounts in the name of ghost employees and employees of NEST which were enchased by above mentioned alleged persons have been taken into record till date and the total embezzled amount of these cheques is 22,765,951/ ( approx. , 22.7 million)
Further investigation is under probe into more financial embezzlement of above-mentioned employees of NEST, Omer Safder and Syed Athar Hussain were authorized signatories and custodians of the book of NEST accounts, and Qurat-ul-Ain Talha was the Manager HR and her primary responsibility was to keep a record of all employees and other relevant records.
In connivance with each other, they made fake cheques in name of present employees and ghost employees of NEST and withdrew different amounts by block branch pak secretariat Islamabad. Till date they have caused 22.7 million losses to the national exchequer volume of which can increase further upon investigation based on the sufficient oral and documentary incriminating evidence collected.
it is crystal clear that accused persons in connivance with each other are found involved in criminal misconduct and criminal breach of trust as they also obtained illegal pecuniary benefits/gains by corrupt and illegal means.
In abuse of their official position as government servants authority have launch a FIR with sections 409/109/420/468/471/ PPCÂ r/w section 5 (2) 1947 PCA to find out more important corruption information .
