{"id":44809,"date":"2024-08-13T12:10:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T07:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=44809"},"modified":"2024-08-13T12:10:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T07:10:14","slug":"fia-arrests-former-passco-gm-in-wheat-procurement-corruption-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/fia-arrests-former-passco-gm-in-wheat-procurement-corruption-case\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA arrests former PASSCO GM in wheat procurement corruption case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/fia-arrests-six-passengers-over-fake-european-visas-at-islamabad-airport\/\">Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)<\/a> has arrested Zahoor Ahmed, the former General Manager of Pakistan <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-announces-agriculture-tube-wells-solarisation-project-details-inside\/\">Agricultural Storage &amp; Services Corporation (PASSCO)<\/a>, in connection with a wheat procurement corruption case.<\/p>\n<p>The FIA spokesperson reported that Zahoor Ahmed was detained for allegedly tampering with the wheat procurement policy set by PASSCO\u2019s Managing Director (MD).<\/p>\n<p>This policy alteration involved purchasing wheat through middlemen rather than directly from farmers. Ahmed issued a policy letter to district officers, using the MD\u2019s signature to enforce this change.<\/p>\n<p>A case has been filed against Zahoor Ahmed, and the former PASSCO MD is also expected to be included in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in May the FIA had already initiated a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/mountaineer-murad-sadpara-passes-away-in-broad-peak-accident\/\">corruption case against three PASSCO officials<\/a> for alleged embezzlement exceeding one billion rupees in a wheat distribution scam.<\/p>\n<p>The accused are General Manager Field Zahoor Ranjha, Zonal Head Borewala Rao Akram, and Zonal Head Bahawalnagar Gibran Iqbal.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the investigation, prompted by a complaint from PASSCO\u2019s Additional Director General, Shazia Altaf, reveals that Ranjha and Akram are accused of misappropriating PKR 12.72 crore (PKR 127,200,000), while Iqbal faces a more significant charge of PKR 95.94 crore related to the wheat cargo distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested Zahoor Ahmed, the former General Manager of Pakistan Agricultural Storage &amp; Services Corporation (PASSCO), in connection with a wheat procurement corruption case. The FIA spokesperson reported that Zahoor Ahmed was detained for allegedly tampering with the wheat procurement policy set by PASSCO\u2019s Managing Director (MD). This policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":44810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[296,20382,20383],"class_list":["post-44809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-fia","tag-passco-gm-arrest","tag-wheat-procurement-case"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44811,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44809\/revisions\/44811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}