12 FBR officers relieved from duties

ISLAMABAD: On the instructions of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, 12 officers of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) were removed from their posts over their involvement in corruption and incompetency.

12 officers of Inland Revenue Service and Customs were made OSD after a thorough investigation on the instructions of the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister directed action against the corrupt and incompetent officers and also gave orders to dismiss the officers involved in corruption.

Minister of Information Atta Tarar, this is a historic step of the government, every year there were reports of leakage in FBR that so many billions were lost, that collection could not be done. He said the prime minister has removed many people from the post by taking a historic step.

He said that the Prime Minister used to talk about stopping tax leakage in every meeting and now the time has come for practical measures. He said corrupt and incompetent officers of FBR have been removed from their posts and action has been ordered against them.

On the other hand, a notification was issued to remove 12 senior officers of FBR from their posts. According to the notification, 12 officers of Grades 21 and 22 have been relieved of their posts, and their services have been transferred to the FBR Admin Pool.

The notification states that Grade 22 Officer and Member Customs Accounting Mukarram Jah Ansari, Member IR Policy Afaq Qureshi, and Member Customs Operation Dr Farid Iqbal Qureshi were sent to the admin pool.

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