ISLAMABAD: Three witnesses recorded their statements in the three NAB references against the Sharif family on Tuesday.
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrived at the hearing of the NAB reference cases against him for the tenth time. His daughter Maryam Nawaz accompanied him while her husband Captain ® Safdar arrived separately.
In the Flagship reference case, the witness Director Foreign Ministry Afaq Ahmad said that on May 28 the Qatari prince wrote a letter to Wajid Zia. The letter was received by Wajid Zia on May 30.
In the Al-Azizia reference, the witness was the Operational Manager of a private Bank in Lahore named Yasir Shabbir.
Shabbir provided details of the amount transferred in Maryam Nawaz’s account and also gave the details of Nawaz Sharif’s banking records from February 12, 2010 to June 2017.
He told the court that based on four transactions, Rs 50.91 million were transferred into Maryam Nawaz’s account. The witness did state that there was no illegal process in the transaction.
In the London flats reference, the witness Shakeel Nagra stated that NAB had been provided with copies of the JIT from the Supreme Court.
The accountability court issued summons for two other witnesses, Zawar Manzoor and Tasleem Khan. Proceedings of the case were postponed till January 3 and witness Yasir Shabbir was ordered to present himself at the next hearing with additional documents.
