Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that he provided the joint investigation team (JIT) all required details about the Panamagate case.
He was speaking to the media on Saturday after appearing before the team at the Federal Judicial Academy (FJA).
“Everyone knows I have severe back pain, but I did not flee from the JIT’s summons, I did not go away to London, never to return, like other politicians,” Shahbaz Sharif said.
“Whatever questions the JIT asked, I answered them to the best of my knowledge,” he added.
Reiterating his brother’s point that the JIT is not investigating a case about corruption within the government, Shahbaz said, “This is a case against our family, it is a means to destabilise out family, just like the attempts made by others in the past,”
“This is not the first time that the Sharif family has been put to trial, people should not forget the time when our family’s Ittifaq Foundries were taken from us by force,” he said during his media talk.
Earlier in the day, CM Sharif arrived at the JIT secretariat to present himself to the JIT. He is the fourth member of the Sharif family to present himself to the JIT.
The prime minister’s brother was accompanied by his son, Hamza Shahbaz, Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on his way to the JIT secretariat.
Since Shahbaz Sharif is one of the directors of Hudaibya Paper Mills, the JIT may also cross-check with him the information it has so far gathered regarding the Hudaibya reference as well as old litigation between the Paper Mills and Al-Tawfeeq Investment Co, the sources further said.