Fake broadcast centre: Probe initiated against PTV’s ex-MD Kamal

ISLAMABAD: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has started investigations into large scale corruption, allegedly perpetrated during the tenure of Pakistan Television’s (PTV) former acting managing director Qazi Mustafa Kamal. Kamal, as Director Engineering (Projects), allegedly forged documents and used them to secure payments issued for construction of four broadcasting centres, which were supposed to be constructed in Azad Kashmir, Sindh and Balochistan. The projects were shown completed in the documents while actually there was nothing except the pieces of land and the initial structures of the buildings on the sites. FIA’s anti-corruption cell has initiated the investigations and asked the PTV management to provide all the relevant documents in a letter dispatched on December 17, 2013. Since, Kamal was working as acting MD PTV then, the management tried to falsify the documents. Now the FIA authorities have once again asked for the relevant details of the projects, including the contractors and the payments made to them. Published in The Express Tribune, February 15th, 2014.