NAB quizzes Nawaz in Toshakhana case

Former PM questioned for an hour before being handed a questionnaire


Our Correspondent July 05, 2019
Nawaz Sharif PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE

A three-member team of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday met former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat prison and handed him a questionnaire related to the Toshakhana luxury vehicles and bulletproof vehicle references.

According to Express News, the NAB team questioned Sharif for an hour before handing him over the questionnaire. Sharif would now send the questionnaire back to the NAB after consulting his legal team. Report said that Sahrif answered some of the questions from the investigators.

“As a prime minister, it was not my duty to keep a check upon the presents or gifts that I was given. All the presents that I had received as the prime minister, had been submitted to the national treasury,” Express News quoted Sharif as telling the NAB team.

“As far as vehicles [luxury and bulletproof] are concerned, as the prime minister, it was my legal and constitutional right to use them and its record can be checked,” Sharif said.

Earlier this month, NAB widened its probe into Toshakhana vehicles case against former president Asif Zardari and included Sharif in its investigation after it found that both the leaders took cars from the government storehouse.

An accountability court later permitted NAB to investigate Sharif, who is already behind the bars as he is serving seven-year imprisonment awarded by an accountability court in 2018 in Al-Azizia reference. Sharif and his family members were also convicted in Avenfield case.

The Supreme Court on July 28, 2017, had disqualified Nawaz in the Panama Papers case and ordered the NAB to file separate cases which were respectively called Avenfiled, Al-Azizia and Flagship references.

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