Revelation of fraud of 5 million by converting attractive seats into normal seats in PIA

Order given to deduct this amount from salaries of caught employees

Lahore: Fraud of more than Rs 5 million has been revealed by converting attractive seats into normal seats in PIA, fraud of attractive seats was done with connivance of Post Fly officers while around twenty officers and employees including three women are involved among those who committed fraud. Order has been given to deduct this amount from salaries of caught employees, this fraud is not happening only at Allama Iqbal International Airport but has also happened at Islamabad and Karachi airports.

According to documents received by Express News, PIA staff at PIA Lahore Station Allama Iqbal International Airport on various flights going domestic and abroad kept taking amount of attractive large seats from passengers after boarding and departure of flight and putting it in their pockets and kept showing these seats as normal seats from system but Audit and Finance Committee caught this fraud, surprising thing is that officers and employees of Post Fly were also included in it.

According to sources, work of Post Fly is to do complete report of incoming and outgoing flights but negligence was also shown from their side, after catching fraud Finance Committee ordered Station Manager PIA Ashfaq Hussain Awan to take action against them on which he taking action deducted Rs 34,750 from salaries of Safdar Gondal, Rs 97,410 from salary of Majid Amir, Rs 172,360 from salaries of Sobia Naz, Rs 47,260 from Shehzad Mahmood, Rs 33,360 from salaries of Kiran Shehzad, Rs 126,639 from Majid Amir Ali, Rs 2,800 from Faizla Amir, Rs 41,700 from salary of Umair Ansari, Rs 20,850 from Kamran Zafar and Rs 30,000 from salaries of Shehzad Bhatti and Rs 6,950 from Amir Zaman.

Sources revealed that surprising thing is that despite being caught these employees are still performing duty on same posts till today while further action has been stopped, further action was to be taken under PIA rules but due to interference of some high officers action has not been taken against these employees, overall fraud of more than Rs 5,060,269 has been done on attractive seats.

When spokesperson of PIA was contacted in this regard then he said that it has been sent to concerned officer, will be told upon receiving reply.