ACE team records Nawaz's statement in Pakpattan shrine land case
- By Web Desk -
- Jul 30, 2019
LAHORE: A team of the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) on Tuesday recorded the statement of the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the Pakpattan shrine land transfer case, ARY News reported.
A three-member reached Kot Lakhpat Jail to grill former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
The ACE was granted permission to interrogate the former prime minister in Kot Lakhpat Jail where he is serving seven-year prison term handed to him by an accountability court in the Al-Azizia case.
A three-member team of the ACE led by Director Anti-Corruption Sahiwal Shafqatullah, comprising of Assistant Director Ghanzffar Tufail and Rashid Maqbool, recorded Sharif’s statement in the Jail Superintendent Room.
On January 15, the JIT told the Supreme Court through its report that Sharif had illegally allotted 14,398 acres of Waqf property, which is attached to the shrine of Baba Farid-ud-Din Ganj Shakar in Pakpattan to one named Dewan Ghulam Qutab when he was the provincial chief executive.
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Last year in December, the Supreme Court constituted the JIT to probe the illegal transfer of 14,394 kanals of land belonging to the Auqaf department in Pakpattan district.
The PML-N supremo had earlier appeared before an apex court bench headed by then chief justice Mian Saqib Nisar in the case.