Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was told on Tuesday that 170 employees of the Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) had been found guilty of submitting fake or forged documents during scrutiny, Dawn News reported. The committee was informed that the documents of 15,000 OGDCL employees were scrutinised. The managing director of the company told the committee that some of the employees had forged their documents altering their dates of birth, grades or divisions in their educational documents. The audit officials said that ignoring the matter would send a wrong signal to other institutions. According to the report presented by audit officials, the loss was incurred due to the negligence of Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority.

Source: Pakistan Today December 19, 2017 17:03 UTC