Hajj scam: Malik says corruption worth 1.6m Riyals took place

The interior minister informed that corruption worth 1.6 million Saudi Riyals took place.

LAHORE:?Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Monday revealed that corruption worth 1.6 million Saudi Riyals took place in the Hajj scam.

Earlier, the FIA reportedly arrested Abdullah Khokar, brother-in-law of Hamid Saeed Kazmi, in relation to the corruption case.

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Hajj scam: Hamid Saeed Kazmi’s brother-in-law arrested

The Federal Investing Agency (FIA) is reported to have arrested another accused involved in the Hajj corruption scandal.

Officials said that FIA officials on Sunday arrested Abdullah Khokhar, the brother-in-law of the sacked minister for religious affairs Hamid Saeed Kazmi, on charges of receiving Rs200,000 each from a number of intending pilgrims as “advance” for “securing Hajj visas”.

The FIA Punjab Director, Zafar Ahmed Qureshi, confirmed Khokhar’s arrest and said that the accused would soon be handed over to the FIA Islamabad.

In a related development, joint secretary of the ministry of religious affairs Raja Aftabul Islam will be presented in a civil court on Monday as the court resumes the hearing in the Hajj corruption case at the expiry of the remand period, the Online news agency said. During the last hearing, the FIA had requested the court to extend the physical remand of the accused “to help with the ongoing investigation”. Civil judge Kashif Qayyum had extended the physical remand of Aftabul Islam in police custody for three more days.

It is learnt that FIA investigators had seized the accused’s personal laptop and moved to freeze his bank accounts.? The FIA will also inform the court about the progress in investigations.

A few days ago, FIA sent a team of its investigators to Saudi Arabia in a bid to approach the Saudi prince who had sent a letter to the Supreme Court which played a key role in the apex court taking action on its own.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 20^th, 2010.

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Pakistan rises to corruption, Tomb in disgrace

The darkest areas represent the most corrupt countries and most regions represent less corrupt countries of the IPC. PHOTO: TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL

Pakistan is ranked 34 ^th on the recently published Transparency International global list of the countries considered as the most corrupt.

Score of ICC in Pakistan for the year 2010 is 2.3, decline of 0.2 since 2008.Le country is aggravated by eight places sound classification preceding the 42nd in Pakistan India 2009.Rival aggravated by 0.1, ranging from 2009 3.4 3.3 in 2010.

Close to three-quarters of the 178 countries in the annual survey of Transparency International on the end sleazier scale that ranges from zero (perceived very corrupt) 10 (seems to have little corruption).

Iraq has finished fourth in the top of the most corrupt country ranking.Myanmar shared second place with the Afghanistan and considered the most corrupt countries Somalia.

At the other end of the scale, Denmark, New Zealand Singapore were regarded as nations are less corrupt.They were followed for Finland Sweden Canada and the Netherlands.

The index perceptions of corruption (IPC) ranks countries according to the perception of corruption area public.Transparence International described the CPIas a global indicator which combines different sources of information on corruption, which allows to compare countries .the ' IPC 2010 is reportedly was based on different evaluations and opinion polls carried out by independent institutions based their information on Administrative and political corruption cases.

The head of the German section of the group, Edda Mueller, said that the international global situation is "great concern" Institute has added percent below the average country was "a bad signal to resolve global problems."

Here are the top ten countries on the list of transparency (less corrupt countries):

Country rank	Country / territory	ICC 2010 score	ICC 2009 score	ICC 2008 score
1	Denmark	9.3	9.3	9.3
1	New Zealand	9.3	9.4	9.3
1	Singapore	9.3	9.2	9.2
4	Finland	9.2	8.9	9
4	Sweden	9.2	9.2	9.3
6	Canada	8.9	8.7	8.7
7	Netherlands	8.8	8.9	8.9
8	Australia	8.7	8.7	8.7
8	Switzerland	8.7	9	9
10	Norway	8.6	8.6	7.9

Here are the ten countries on the list of Transparency International (the most corrupt countries):

Country rank	Country / territory	ICC 2010 score	ICC 2009 score	ICC 2008 score

168	Equatorial Guinea	1.9	1.8	1.7
170	Burundi	1.8	1.8	1.9
171	Chad	1.7	1.6	1.6
172	Sudan	1.6	1.5	1.6
172	Turkmenistan	1.6	1.8	1.8
172	Uzbekistan	1.6	1.7	1.8
175	Iraq	1.5	1.5	1.3
176	Afghanistan	1.4	1.3	1.5
176	Burma	1.4	1.4	1.3
178	Somalia	1.1	1.1	1

Source: Transparency International ICC

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