Sharif submits fresh documents in court

There were no provisions in the law to present more documents in the case at this stage

Sardar Muzaffar Abbasi, NAB Prosecutor

islamabad — An accountability court on Friday accepted fresh documents submitted by the defence side in Flagship Investment reference against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and allowed to make them part of case record.

The accountability court-II Judge Arshad Malik rejected objections from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and allowed to make the documents pertaining to sale of Hussain Nawaz’s property as part of case record.

The court also turned down the defence’s request to further delay the verdicts in graft references against Sharifs.

Earlier, NAB Prosecutor Sardar Muzaffar Abbasi opposed the defence request and adopted the stance that these documents were not mentioned in the financial statement. The companies were in loss, he argued.

He said the prosecution’s case was that how these companies were established but the defence had produced documents on company disposal now. The NAB prosecutor pleaded that the trial court had reserved its judgment after the defence side had informed the court regarding completion of its evidence and arguments.

There were no provisions in the law to present more documents in the case at this stage, he argued, adding that the accused had been given full opportunity to submit documents in their defence during the trial.

At this, the judge noted that during the last hearing he had allowed to produce more documents before the judgment.

The judge remarked that the case was that the former prime minister had made properties abroad in the names of his sons. —