Summary NAB asked PML-N president to present all documents of family assets.
LAHORE (Dunya News) – National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has summoned opposition leader in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif on July 5.
The notification summoning Shehbaz has been received at his residence. NAB asked PML-N president to present all documents of family assets during his appearance before bureau at 2PM on July 5.
NAB asked Shehbaz to submit details of Rs 110 million received through foreign accounts. Other than foreign accounts and assets, NAB asked PML-N leader to submit details of vehicles also.
PML-N president has been summoned in telegraphic transfer case and assets beyond means case.
Earlier, NAB had arrested Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif in the Ashiana-e-Iqbal Housing Scheme scam on October 5. The former chief minister was charged with awarding illegal contracts to his favorite firm.
He was apprehended during his appearance before NAB in Saaf Pani Company scam. The bureau quizzed Sharif regarding a tender awarded to a private consultancy company for a survey of the Saaf Pani company.
The PML-N president had failed to satisfy the probing team of the bureau during the investigation and was ultimately arrested.
The anti-graft watchdog had claimed that the company did not conduct any kind of survey but nevertheless was provided a lucrative sum of Rs 1.5 billion.
Ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s principal secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad became an approver in the case. Fawad Hassan Fawad, in his statement before NAB, had claimed that he had awarded a contract to a “favourite firm” in the Rs14 billion Ashiana Housing project at the behest of Shahbaz Sharif.
The anti-graft agency said that the contract for the housing scheme was won by a construction company titled Chaudhry Latif and Sons but Sharif cancelled it and later on awarded the contract to Lahore Casa Developers – a proxy group of Paragon City (Pvt) Limited, which is said to be owned by ex-Railways Minister Saad Rafique”.
The Lahore High Court (LHC on February 15 ordered to release Shehbaz Sharif after approving his bail plea. The bail was granted against two surety bonds worth one million each in Ramzan Sugar Mills and Ashiana Housing Scheme cases.
The court said in its remarks that the NAB failed to prove the allegations leveled against the PMLN president. Shehbaz Sharif never remained the chief executive of Ramzan Sugar Mills, LHC said.
