Quetta Food Department wheat corruption exposed on a large-scale, action taken promptly by the Anti Corruption Establishment Balochistan.
Balochistan authority is acting on a major food department Quetta case of wheat theft, misappropriation, and financial impropriety.
Abdul Mateen, Allahuddin, and Aslam Shah got arrested.
Officials are being apprehended in several places to stop other ones from participated.
The Director General of the Anti-Corruption Establishment Balochistan, Abdul Waheed Kakar, gave this command.
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Following a claim from City Commissioner Abdullah and Assistant Commissioner Sadar Hamza Anjum that wheat sacks were being moved in several lorries without any official paperwork to various flour mills and districts, the operation started.
Preliminary research showed these wheat sacks were loaded from the Spiny Road and White Road warehouses of the Food Department.
The truck drivers failed to offer any evidence when they were told to show legal challans and papers.
The worried authorities next were called but they could not explain or produce official papers either.
Inspection of the warehouse files revealed wheat sacks had been taken without appropriate entry and the amount indicated in the stock market register did not correspond the physical inventory.
A sure sign of corruption and theft is that 31,929 sacks were logged but 43,975 sacks were actually discovered according to the records.
Furthermore discovered in the inquiry was Aslam Shah’s effort to hide the embezzlement by putting money into the Food Department’s account under the names of flour mills at a discounted rate, trying to legitimize the corruption.
Furthermore criticizing this change is the Pakistan Flour Mills Association.
Investigations suggest that so far 2,018 bags of wheat have been taken, resulting in a theoretical government loss of some 23 million rupees.
The officers and staff discovered to be implicated are: Suleman Kakar (Director Admin), Deputy Director Quetta Zone, Aslam Shah (Assistant Director and Incharge of White Road Warehouse), Allahuddin (Incharge of Spiny Road Warehouse), Abdul Mateen (also Incharge of Spiny Road Warehouse), and Saleem (Supervisor at White Road Warehouse).
The suspect is currently under investigation, and there are charges filed against him. The last missing fugitives will be caught in raids.
