ISLAMABAD, June 9 (NNN) : Two top officials of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) are yet to submit details of tickets valued at approximately Rs 6.5 million taken by them.
As a result, PCB is still waiting to reconcile the sale of tickets for the recent home series against India.
Although PCB Chairman Shaharyar Khan had announced few days back that the accounts of the India series were nearly complete and would be made public soon, sources in the board have another story to tell, according to a report.
Sources said while the reconcilement process has shown zero liabilities against the names of Shaharyar Khan and chief executive Rameez Raja as far as procurement of tickets is concerned, there is an outstanding amount of Rs 6.5 million remaining against these two officials.
"One official has to give accounts for tickets worth Rs 900,000 and the other one for tickets valued at Rs 5.6 million.
Both have to reconcile what they did with the tickets worth 6.5 million that they took and the money involved," said a source.
The PCB has announced that it netted revenues over eight million from sale of tickets for the five-match and three test series against India with majority of the tickets being sold for the limited overs matches.
But despite the huge revenues earned from sale of tickets for any series in Pakistan, the reconcilement process of the ticket sales was held up because PCB officials had taken away tickets worth 18 million from the company responsible for printing and sale of tickets.
The source said while tickets worth 11.5 million that had been taken by different board officials had been reconciled in the sense that it was now known where they had gone and money recovered, but the accounts for the tickets of 6.5 million remained outstanding against these two officials.
However, the source made it clear that the two officials are not in the senior rank of employees in the board.
The PCB has repeatedly claimed the reconciliation process had taken time because accounts were being received from different bank branches and booths and even from internet sales.
When the PCB Chairman and chief executive recently appeared before the Senate Standing committee on sports, Senator Enver Baig had accused some board officials of taking tickets in bulk and providing them to friends and associates who sold them for higher prices thus depriving the general public of majority of tickets.