Probe begins into PM Sharif’s properties
The Joint Investigation Team set up to probe corruption allegations against Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family in the Panama Papers case started its work on Tuesday with an informal meeting in Islamabad.
The Supreme Court, which formed the JIT and had last week approved the six-member team comprising one representative each from the State Bank of Pakistan, Securities and Exchange Commission, National Accountability Bureau, Federal Investigation Agency, Military Intelligence and Inter-Services Intelligence.
The head of the team, FIA’s additional director general Wajid Zia, was briefed about security protocols of the Federal Judicial Academy, the building which has now been declared as the JIT’s official secretariat. The first formal meeting of the JIT is expected over the next couple of days.
According to an FIA official, the JIT head also wrote a letter to the FIA director general, asking him to forward names of five officers with expertise in probing white collar crime.
The ISI representative, Brigadier Nauman, was also part of the team which probed ‘Dawn Leaks’ as well as the Pathankot attack.
The JIT will submit its progress report on a fortnightly basis to the three-judge bench of the top court formed to oversee the implementation of the Panama Papers verdict.