Accountability court turns down Nawaz's objection on Supplementary case
Accountability court turns down Nawaz's objection on Supplementary case : An accountability court in Pakistan turned down former Prime Minister 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.
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.
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.
These cases are related to the Panama Papers scandal that had forced the 68-year-old three-time prime minister to quit the chair. Sharif has appeared in the court in Islamabad for the 15th time today along with his daughter Maryam and son-in-law Mohammad Safdar.
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. "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.
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.
- PTC News
