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Panama Papers verdict: Pakistani anti-corruption body seeks bank details of Nawaz Sharif and his family members

IslamabadIslamic Republic of Pakistan's prime anti-corruption body has sought-after the main points of bank accounts of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family from the banking concern of Pakistan, in keeping witha media report on Friday.


In July, Pakistan's Supreme Court had disqualified Sharif from continued in his workplace for possessing a piece allowat the firm of his son within the UAE.
File image of Nawaz Sharif. AP
The apex court had dominated that Sharif had been "dishonest to the parliament and also the courts in not revealinghis employment within the Dubai-based Capital FZE company in his 2013 nomination papers."
The court conjointly ordered the National answerableness Bureau (NAB) to research concealment and differentcorruption charges against Sharif, his youngsters, in-law Safdar and minister of finance Ishaq Dar, a relative of Sharif, in light-weight of the report of the Joint Investigation Team that probed the Panama Papers case.

The NAB has sought-after the entire details of bank accounts of the Sharif family from the financial organisation, the banking concern of Islamic Republic of Pakistan (SBP), The specific apsis according.
The top graft buster wrote a letter to the SBP on Th seeking complete banking transactions records of members of the Sharif family, a senior NAB official aforesaid.
Sharif, 67, has fired the corruption charges against him as a "bundle of unfounded allegations." The SBP can collect the main points from all banks within the country and furnish them to NAB when they're compiled.
The official aforesaid that the event shows that the anti-graft watchdog, besides victimisation the report of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) that probed the Panama Papers case on the directions of the Supreme Court, is additionallyconducting its own inquiries into the problem.
The JIT was conjointly given records of the Sharif family's banking transactions. Besides seeking records of banking transactions, the NAB had already written a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission of Islamic Republic of Pakistan (SECP) seeking details of some seven firms closely-held by relatives of minister of finance Dar, the report aforesaid.

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