Flagship Investment reference appeal: NAB seeks IHC's nod to submit documents

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Thursday filed miscellaneous applications in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking permission to submit the record earlier produced in the Accountability Court as well as order to attach it with the under-trial appeal against acquittal of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the Flagship reference.

Deputy Prosecutor NAB Sardar Muzaffar Abbasi filed the miscellaneous applications in the IHC. According to the pleas, the documents include the chart pertaining to wealth statements of accused Nawaz Sharif, Hassan Nawaz and Hussain Nawaz Sharif according to the Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR) record along with the list of exhibited documents as per original record.

It said that the chart pertains to companies duly established by the accused persons in the United Arab Emirate (UAE), United Kingdom (UK), and British Virgin Islands (BVI) along with list of exhibited documents. The chart pertains to year-wise accumulated figures of financial injections by the accused persons in the UK, UAE and BVI companies, along with the list of exhibited documents, it added.

The chart pertains to specific details of properties acquired and held in the name of companies wherein the accused are the owners along with the list of exhibited documents. According to the NAB, this court on June 25 directed the Bureau to submit documents related to tax and properties record of Sharif. The documents had been submitted in trial court and their original copies are also available, it said.

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