Nawaz Sharif fails to appear before NAB for questioning
- By Web Desk -
- Feb 10, 2018
RAWALPINDI: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday failed to show up before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Rawalpindi, for questioning in Al-Azizia Steel Mills and Flagship Investment case.
The bureau had served notice to the former premier to appear before it to record his statement in two cases, but he didn’t turn up.
Sources said the NAB has decided to file supplementary references against the Sharif family in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills and Flagship Investment cases.
The supplementary references are likely to be filed next week in the accountability court seized with the graft cases filed against the ruling family by the NAB.
Earlier, the bureau had filed a supplementary reference against the former premier and members of his family in the Avenfield properties case.
It filed the reference after obtaining additional evidence about the Avenfield flats under the mutual legal assistance (MLA).
According to the reference, Sharif is the actual owner of the London properties, which he had bought in the name of his children.
It alleged Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz and son Hussain Nawaz provided fake documents to a joint investigation team appointed to probe the ruling family’s wealth with regard to the flats in a pricey London neighbhourhood.
The reference stated that the Sharifs failed to provide the money trail behind the purchase of the Avenfield flats and the Trust Deed between Maryam and Hussain presented to the JIT found to be fake.
Naming Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz, sons – Hussain and Hasan – and son-in-law Captain (retd) Safdar as accused in the reference, it maintained they have committed corruption, which is punishable act under Section 10 of the National Accountability Ordinance.
The supplementary reference included seven witnesses, including expert of the Radley Forensic Document Laboratory in London, Robert W. Radley and solicitor.
TV interviews of the former premier, Maryam, Hasan and Hussain have also been made a part of the evidence.