inquiry officer in February 2017 but the “inquiry is still under process”.The FBR took years to take a decision against Mustafa Kamal -a grade 19 officer of Inland Revenues, who was finally removed from service last month on allegations of hiding his assets.Shamsuzzaman had been accused of misconduct and corruption in a case of Rs29.3 million loss to the exchequer in March 2015.In a glaring case, a grade 18 officer Syed Shoaib Raza was found guilty of mis-declaring his assets in April 2015. At that time he was serving in the Directorate of Transit Trade. The action taken against him was that the incumbent Secretary Revenue Division exonerated him in July. In March 2016, he was appointed as Deputy Director Customs valuation.Nazir Ahamd Qureshi had been accused ofcorrupt practices, as he replaced high value seized mobile phones with low value handsets. He was given a punishment of withholding two annual increments. Qureshi is now senior preventive officer in Karachi and enjoying a double salary since March this year.However, four officers of grade 16 who were found guilty of wrong assessments of imported consignments were given penalty of two time scales demotions. But they were not removed from their positions. They were principal appraisers and examiners, which are considered a “cash posts” in the FBR.Five principal appraisers facing allegations of corruption were exonerated after two years.In a case that had created ripples in the political circles, the FBR did not take sufficient action against its five officers who cleared imported wheat without collecting regulatory duties. The