DG CAA is suspected of committing corruption up to Rs 2 trillion.
Employees of the CAA write a letter to the aviation minister, demanding that the FIA begin an investigation.
DG Civil Aviation (CAA) Khaqan Murtaza and his crew are the targets of allegations of Rs 2 trillion worth of corruption, according to Express News on Sunday.
In a letter dated February 6, the CAA Officers Employees Association complained that Muratza was “not fit” to hold office and expressed concerns that his team would do more harm to the nation. The letter was addressed to Secretary Aviation and Aviation Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique.
According to the letter, more than Rs1.3 trillion were wasted since the ownership of the airport site was not turned over.
A loss of Rs10 billion in lease payments at Karachi Airport and further damage owing to the CAA’s failure to recover arrears of over Rs300 billion are also mentioned in the document. It also claims that bogus licences were issued for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), the country’s flag carrier.
Furthermore, Lahore Walton Airport’s 450 billion rupee property has suffered a loss of 400 billion rupees.
According to reports, the CAA officers also asserted that in the instance of Benazir Bhutto International Airport, the prime minister and his cabinet’s explicit directives were disregarded.
They also claimed that a Prado and two Land Cruisers were fraudulently registered by the DGCAA.
According to the letter, over 100 workers had to go to court as a result of the DGCAA’s lack of cooperation. It further claims that during his tenure, he gave his close friends and family members contractual positions without consulting other institutions about outsourcing.
There have also been complaints about the lack of attention given to the pensioner issue.
The CAA employees have pushed for an investigation to be launched against the DG and his team and asked that the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) look into the situation.
DG Murataza, however, has called the accusations “baseless” and “contrary to reality” and refuted them.
For advocating “merit-based policies,” he said that “a campaign” had been started against him, and that “the officers generating the claims were implicated in corrupt acts” themselves.
As he vowed to “continue to take action against corrupt personnel,” he added that the FIA was currently looking into cases against the “corrupt authorities”.
