QUEST Vice-Chancellor in Hot Water For Alleged Corruption
Higher education commission issued funds a decade ago for construction of a centralized laboratory however it is non-existent till date
The vice-chancellor and former project director of Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Science & Technology (QUEST) Nawabshah is in hot water for alleged corruption in completion of different projects from the funds of Higher Education Commission (HEC).
QUEST Vice-Chancellor (VC) Saleem Raza Samo is on the radar of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) as he allegedly misused funds worth Rs 35 million.
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The funds were issued by HEC in 2005 for the construction of a centralized laboratory and the incumbent VC was serving as the project director.
The project was supposed to be completed in 2008 in the C-Sector of the varsity.
However, the period elapsed but not a single brick of centralized laboratory was laid and all funds were exhausted in 3 years.
It has also been learned that QUEST management used dilatory tactics when the HEC team asked to give a tour of the centralized laboratory.
Professor Asif Ali Memon had written a letter to Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) Shaheed Benazirabad regarding the inquiry into misappropriation of funds.
FIA has also written a letter to the university’s registrar and sought submission of record of the project.
