An accountability court in Pakistan on Tuesday rejected ousted premier Nawaz Sharif’s objections to the supplementary case filed against him and his family by the country’s anti-graft body over properties in London.<\/p>\n
The court holding trial in graft cases against Sharif and his family decided that the supplementary case would be made part of the record in the Avenfield flats case.<\/p>\n
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on January 22 filed a supplementary case with the accountability court’s registrar in Islamabad which is already trying Sharif and his family — two sons Hussain and Hassan, daughter Maryam, and son-in-law Safdar — for alleged corruption in three cases.<\/p>\n
The cases are related to the Panama Papers scandal that had forced the 68-year-old three-time prime minister to resign.<\/p>\n
Accompanied by daughter Maryam and son-in-law Mohammad Safdar, Sharif for the 15th time appeared in the court located in Islamabad.<\/p>\n
During the hearing today, conducted by Judge Muhammad Bashir, Nawaz Sharif s lawyer Khawaja Haris had raised an objection over the supplementary reference, saying there is nothing new in it.<\/p>\n
“The reference has been filed in line with the JIT report and no Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) report has so far been filed, said Haris.<\/p>\n
According to him, the NAB had said that a supplementary reference would be filed when new evidence is found against the suspects but that is not the case. The supplementary reference had to be filed in reply to a legal consultation.<\/p>\n
Haris stressed that the supplementary reference was not as per the order of the top court and thus could not be accepted.<\/p>\n
“The supplementary reference was filed to target Sharif and even in that reference, the same allegations already levelled in the interim reference were repeated,” he said.<\/p>\n
The three cases against the Sharif family pertain to the Al-Azizia Steel Mills, several companies including Flagship Investment Ltd, and London’s Avenfield properties.<\/p>\n
Sharif and his sons have been named in all three NAB cases, while Maryam and Safdar have been named only in the Avenfield case.<\/p>\n
The political future of Sharif, who heads the country’s most powerful political family and the ruling PML-N party, has been hanging in the balance since his ouster. If convicted, he could be jailed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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