• NAB handled the Malam Jabba fraud case without taking further action.
• The National Accountability Office transfers the case to the KP government.
• The Malam Jabba scandal surfaced on January 7, 2018. After declaring that this was a typical example of corruption and abuse of power, the NAB chairman ordered an investigation on January 9, 2018.

Peshawar: After completing the investigation of the Malam Jaba scandal in three and a half years, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) handled the case without taking any further action.

NAB hopes to submit this case to the chief secretary of KP to investigate violations of contract awards. news Reported on Thursday.

The Malam Jabba scandal surfaced on January 7, 2018. After declaring that this was a typical example of corruption and abuse of power, the NAB chairman ordered an investigation on January 9, 2018.

A glimpse of the Malam Jaba scandal

According to the publication, people questioned NAB’s performance and if no problems were found, why the case would be put on hold for three and a half years.

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In 2020, according to an order of the Peshawar High Court, a high-level official committee submitted a 6-page report stating that the 270 acres of land in Malam Jaba belonged to the tourism department and its income records were wrong.

The former chairman of the Ehtesab Committee and (retired) General Hamid Khan raised serious objections in a letter dated April 15, 2015, IW/EC/MalamJabba/01, calling the bidding process suspicious.

Samson submitted the amount late and it has no experience in the hotel industry. The letter stated that the lease contract had been given to a company of choice. The head of the CM inspection team expressed similar suspicions in another letter dated February 26, 2016.

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But nothing happened.

The Ehtesab committee has become redundant, and the CM inspection team’s report has been thrown into the trash.

The documents show that the former CM Pervez Khattak decided to contact the Australian government or PAF about the Malam Jaba project at two meetings on October 11 and December 19, 2013, but the tourism department did not contact them.

The documents confirmed that the project did not set feasibility, technical, financial or pre-qualification criteria.