ISLAMABAD, Sept. 7 (TNS): A meeting of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB)’s executive board decided to file three corruption references against members of the Sharif family and one against Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, local media quoting sources reported on Thursday.
Senior NAB officials, including chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry, attended the meeting, according to sources.
The references will be filed in the accountability courts of Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
Supreme Court on July 28, ordered top anti-graft body to file several references against Nawaz, his children Hussain, Hasan, and Maryam, son-in-law MNA Capt (retd) Safdar and Dar.
The accountability bureau was given six weeks, from the date of the court’s order, to file the references in the accountability courts.
The meeting was originally planned to be held on Wednesday but was delayed for a day as the bureau’s prosecutor general was in Lahore.
Sources said the bureau had informed Supreme Court Justice Ijazul Ahsan, the monitoring judge of the case, of their intent to file the references in the courts by Friday — the deadline set by the apex court.
NAB’s Rawalpindi branch prepared references regarding the Azizia Steel Mills and the nearly dozen companies owned by the Sharif family.
The bureau’s Lahore branch prepared a reference on the Sharif family’s Avenfield apartments in London and another against Dar for owning assets beyond his known sources of income.
