Anti-Corruption Commission chairman Iqbal Mahmood on Thursday said that the commission would scrutinise the sources of income of house owners who were asking doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers caring COVID-19 patients to vacate their rented homes. The commission chairman said that such behaviour with the physicians and other healthcare workers in the time of coronavirus pandemic was a violation of the Communicable Diseases Prevention, Control and Eradication Act, 2018.
“The authority concerned will take action against the violation of the law while the commission will launch inquiry against such people to examine their wealth under the Anti-Corruption Commission Act, 2004 and the Corruption Prevention Act, 1974,” Iqbal Mahmood said in a written answer to journalists’ query through his public relations department.
Iqbal Mahmood also said that he asked the commission’s investigators involved in filing cases against embezzlers of relief and other food aid goods to submit charge sheet immediately. He said that the commission’s intelligence unit was on surveillance on relief distribution programmes across the country. A good number of doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers were reportedly asked to vacate their rented homes in recent days.
