dollar corruption case of over 7,000 missing containers of US-led International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) and NATO, and clearance of imported wheat without payment of duties.Where it had to take any action, the FBR shifted the entire burden on low-grade officers to save the skins at the top level. In many cases where the officials enjoyed clout, the FBR adopted a vague procedure for taking disciplinary action against them and is now seeking ex-post facto approval from the Prime Minister, showed the report.The Senate Standing Committee of Finance has taken up the issue of non-provision of details about the officers who were facing inquiries as of November 2015 under Efficiency and Disciplinary Rules of 1973. The November 2015 cut of date is critical, as the federal government hadAbro but the punishment was stoppage of increment for two years. The FBR proved the charge of payment of bogus tax refund against its officer Jawhar Ali Shah and the punishment was only reduction to a lower stage in his own grade.Junaid Usman Akram -a grade 18 officer - had been terminated from service in 2010 after it was established that he indulged in corrupt practices that caused a loss of Rs37.7 million. The court had ordered reinstatement of the officer while directing to hold a fresh inquiry. He was appointed as deputy director post-clearance audit this month. The FBR’s top management’s protection to the officer can be gauged from the fact that it did not appoint an inquiry officer for seven months. The FBR finally appointed an