NAB prepares another case against Sharifs and Maryam
dubai — Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his brother Shahbaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz, are headed for more trouble as the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Lahore, has prepared another corruption case against them, Dawn reported.
The refrence, pertaining to the Chaudhry Sugar Mills, money laundering and assets beyond means, was sent to its chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal on Friday for approval for filing in an accountability court.
The NAB also opened an inquiry against the Sharif family for “illegally acquiring” hundreds of hectares of land in Raiwind to bring it into the precincts of its Jati Umra residence.
“The new corruption reference against the Sharif family involving Rs7 billion will be presented in a meeting of the NAB executive board next week and the chairman is expected to give approval for filing the reference in the accountability court of Lahore shortly,” a source was quoted by as saying. He said the NAB deputy chairman had also called a pre-executive board meeting on Monday to go through the proposed draft of the reference.
The PML-N says that Sharifs’ mother, ancestral property are being dragged into investigation by the NAB as part of ‘political victimisation’. NAB has named Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz as prime suspects in the reference. Shahbaz Sharif’s son Salman, who fled to the UK, and other Sharif family members are among the 16 suspects in this case, according to