Pak SC asks Sharif family to produce documentary evidence

TIL Desk/World/Islamabad-Pakistan’s Supreme Court asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s family to produce documentary evidence to establish ownership of flats in London that are under the scanner following the Panama papers leak. The apex court after a hiatus of two weeks resumed hearing of the high-profile Panamagate case involving Prime Minister Sharif and his children.

The case is about alleged illegal money laundering by Sharif in 1990s when he twice served as Prime Minister to purchase assets in London. The assets surfaced when Panama papers showed that they were managed through offshore companies owned by Sharif’s children.

The five-member bench hearing the case asked the Sharif family to produce documentary evidence to establish Prime Minister’s son Hussain Nawaz as beneficial owner of Park Lane flats in London, in accordance with the family’s claim. “Where is the document which could show Hussain Nawaz is the beneficial owner of Landon flats?” Justice Azmat Saeed Shaikh asked Sharif family’s counsel Salman Akram Raja.