A NewsPakistan.TV Report
KARACHI (Staff Reporter): Reliable sources have revealed that NAB has seized documents related to tractor-manufacturing contract awarded to OMNI Group.
Reportedly, former president of Pakistan and Co-Chairman PPP Asif Ali Zardari’s close associate Anwar Majeed and his son Abdul Ghani Majeed had introduced a scheme in collaboration of Agriculture Department. According to that small farmers were supposed to get tractors at a subsidy of Rs. 300,000/- from the Government of Sindh.
According to sources contract was granted to manufacture 7500 tractors for which Government of Sindh had provided a loan of Rs. 2000 million. Purportedly, though it was announced that the forms would be distributed through Sindh Bank, the same were only provided to the influential; ordinary farmers failed to get any benefit. Sources have indicated that the same tractors were later smuggled to Afghanistan.
Sources have informed that NAB is in the process of compiling a list of people who have benefited from the said scheme over the last eight years. This will facilitate the authority to determine who the real beneficiaries were.
Allegedly, Sindh Government treasury was inflicted with double loss: firstly, the contract itself was awarded at inflated rates; secondly, tractors were acquired by the powerful property-owners themselves.
Responsible sources have indicated that arrest of important personalities were expected following winding up of NAB’s investigations. Meanwhile, sources have disclosed that efforts to arrest former minister Sharjeel Inam Memon have been intensified.
