Summary NAB has issued directives at all airports not to allow 16 RPPs culprits leave country.
ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau on the orders of Supreme Court gas issued directives at all national airports that if anyone of the 16 criminals named in Rental Power Case attempt to leave the country than the bureau should be informed immediately.
The Supreme Court has ordered all 16 offenders in the case to be arrested, and gave 24 hours deadline to the authorities to implement the orders.
The court maintained that National Accountability Bureau (NAB) will be responsible if any of the respondents manage to escape.
NAB sources told Online that NAB had already written a letter to the Interior Ministry to place the name of the 16 offenders in the ECL and now the request has been refreshed after the SC orders of arrest of 16 involved in the RPP case.
Sources also told that NAB itself has also instructed the Immigration authorities at all national airports to stop anyone of the 16 offenders immediately if they attempt to leave the country and NAB be informed.
Sources told that NAB authorities had investigated the case thoroughly and had apprised the court of the developments off and on and the authority is implementing the SC orders
Earlier last year, the court directed NAB to proceed against all government functionaries involved, including the ministers for water and power during whose tenure the RPPs were approved or set up, and the minister and finance secretary holding charge when down payment for RPPs was increased from 7% to 14%.
Liaquat Jatoi and Raja Pervaiz Ashraf were water and power ministers in 2006 and 2008, respectively, while Shaukat Tareen was the finance minister in 2008, when down payment was increased.
Of the 19 RPP deals signed initially, only nine were allowed to function after a damning Asian Development Bank evaluation report. Subsequently, six of those nine RPPs were discontinued.
