Pakistan Cricket Board has an old relationship with controversies, once again this board is getting gritty. Actually, an audit report has revealed the scam of crores of rupees inside the board. Pakistan’s Auditor General has exposed financial irregularities, allocation of contracts and allocation in PCB.
There have been many big revelations in the report. According to this, it includes payment of Rs 63.39 million (6 crore 33 lakh and 90 thousand rupees) for the food of policemen engaged in security during international matches.
In this, there has also been talk of incorrectly appointing 3 coaches of Under-16 Edge Group at the High Performance Center in Karachi, 5.4 million rupees (54 lakh) were spent in their salary. In this, irregular allocation of ticket contracts without open competition has also been revealed.
Doubt of match fixing
According to the report, match officials have been paid more, this also raises suspicion of match fixing. Officers were paid more than 39 lakh Pakistani rupees. Apart from this, the report has also been said about the expenditure of Rs 9 lakh every month on the appointment of media director.
The last few years have been filled with upheaval for PCB. In December 2022, Rameez Raja was removed from the post of president. After this, Najam Sethi was from December 2022 to June 2023 and then from June 2023 to 2024, Jaka Ashraf was the president. Since then, Mohsin Naqvi has remained in this post.
The report said that it has been revealed to pay more Rs 38 lakh as match fees. Between February and June 2024, the chairman was paid Rs 41.7 lakhs in the form of utility charge, housing payment and POL, which was unauthorized.
Questions on appointment also
The report has raised the question that a media director was appointed in October 2023 without any procedure. The advertisement for this post came on August 17. Its appointment, appointment approval, appointment letter, signing of agreement and all the joining work has been done on the same day.
Accused of spending money without bidding process
The Auditor General has said that money was spent without any permission or correct bidding process. It has been given an example that the Punjab government spent 19.8 million (1.09 crore) on diesel of bulletproof vehicles.
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