Cases to be filed against Sharif family
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s anti-graft watchdog announced on Monday it will file criminal corruption cases against former premier Nawaz Sharif and his children even as PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi submitted papers in Parliament to be elected as the placeholder prime minister.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) said four cases will be filed against Sharif, his sons Hussain and Hassan, daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Muhammad Safdar in anti-corruption courts in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
Separate cases will also be filed against former finance minister Ishaq Dar, a close aide of Sharif.
Sharif was ousted by the top court on Friday for not being honest after an investigative panel concluded he had not declared salary due to him from his son’s UAE-based firm. The probe was conducted after the Panama Papers leaks revealed Sharif’s three children owned offshore assets. The court had also directed the NAB to file criminal cases against Sharif and his family within six weeks.
A statement issued by the NAB said its executive board had decided to file the four cases in line with the court’s judgement. The cases will be prepared on the basis of “material collected and referred by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in its report and some other material” available with Federal Investigation Agency and NAB.