An accountability court on Friday accepted new documents in the Flagship Investment reference against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
Accountability Court Judge Arshad Malik heard the Flagship Investment reference and accepted the request of Nawaz’s counsel to submit additional documents and rejected the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) reservations.
During the hearing, NAB prosecutor Sardar Mehfooz raised objection, saying that “the defence counsel had earlier stated that they have provided complete evidence. State any law under which these additional documents can now be presented.”
“The suspects were given full opportunity to submit documents in their defence. The documents which were presented are not mentioned in the financial statement. They claim that the companies were in loss. They have brought documents on company disposal now but our case is about the formation of these companies,” he added.
Judge Malik remarked, “During the last hearing, I said that documents can be provided before the decision is announced. The case concerns Nawaz’s purchase of the property in the name of his benamidaar. What difference will it make to the case if the property was sold or not?” the judge asked.
Subsequently, the court accepted the request and additional documents pertaining to Hasan Nawaz’s property were made part of the record. The accountability court had on Wednesday reserved verdicts in the remaining two corruption references against Nawaz to be announced on Monday, December 24.
Published in Daily Times, December 22nd 2018.
