Wheat worth Rs620mn sold illegally from Food Dept warehouses: ACE

DADU: The Anti-Corruption Establishment Sindh on Wednesday revealed that wheat worth Rs620 million was sold illegally from warehouses of the Food Department in Dadu, ARY News reported.

This was disclosed when a team of the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) raided nine different warehouses of the Food Department in Dadu. The ACE team included the assistant and deputy directors also.

During the raid, the ACE team found 0.194 million sacks of wheat worth Rs620 million missing.

“We have found that wheat worth Rs620 million has been sold unlawfully,” said the deputy director.

He said two employees of the Food Department had been taken into custody and an investigation had been launched against the embezzlement.

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On March 27, the Sindh High Court (SHC) had heard a case pertaining to stolen wheat worth billions of rupees.

During the hearing, the lawyer representing the accused Zubair and others had said his clients were ready to pay the amount.

The counsel of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had said the suspects were paying the amount and not the mark-up.

The chief justice SHC had said the accused must also pay the mark-up rate. The court had said the wheat was meant for distribution among the poor.