ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday submitted the references against ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his sons, Hassan Nawaz and Hussain Nawaz, to the Islamabad’s Accountability Court after removing the objections raised by the court’s registrar office on September 8.
NAB has also filed additional documents pertaining to London flats along with the reference filed under Section 18-G of the NAB Ordinance 1999. The NAB has based the references on the report of the six-member Joint Investigation Team (JIT), which probed the Panama Papers case on the order of the Supreme Court.
Earlier, the registrar office had raised objections over the references, stating that the references were incomplete. It had returned the references and asked the NAB prosecution team to re-file the documents.
On Thursday, the NAB’s executive board had given the approval to file the references.
Meanwhile, a private TV channel reported that the registrar’s office, where the process of scrutiny of the references against the Sharif family continues, has found errors in references pertaining to the Sharif family’s Avenfield apartments and Azizia Steel Mills.
Many pages of the references do not have page numbers mentioned and some of them have the wrong number printed, some documents are extra and some necessary documents were not attached, stated the channel.
The court has given the registrar office till September 14 to completely scrutinise the documents.