KARACHI:Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Karachi Friday arrested former Director General of Employees’ Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) Muhammad Jameel and registered a case against other officials including former Chairman EOBI over charges of causing loss of millions of rupees to national exchequer.

According to spokesman for FIA Sindh, the FIA’s Corporate Crime Circle registered a case against former Chairman EOBI Zafar Gondal, former DG Finance Imtiaz Mirza, former Director Finance Asif Azad and officers of a private firm while arrested former DG of EOBI for allegedly causing loss of Rs. 4.9352 million by misappropriation in EOBI tender issued for a procurement of a generator.

A tender was issued from EOBI, Head Office, for procurement of a generator. An advance payment was allegedly made by the Chairman EOBI to the private company.

The company submitted a guarantee in a bank in Lahore, which was deliberately not cashed by EOBI officers.

The Director General Administration allegedly awarded illegal favors to the company which caused loss to exchequer as the company could not provide the generator set as per the tender and jointly consumed government funds.

During the investigation, it came to light that Chairman EOBI Zafar Gondal, in violation PPRA rules, illegally approved an advance payment of Rs. 4.9352 million to the company. Despite the clear instruction in the tender advertisement that the generator would be provided from the available stock, the then DG, F&A, Mirza Imtiaz and Director Finance Asif Azad illegally violated the tender PPRA rules and issued cheque.

On the illegal approval of Chairman EOBI, Muhammad Jamil acted on the proposal for illegal advance payment as well as did not cash the bank guarantee and the government has not received set of diesel generator till date.

A case had been registered and further investigations were underway.