NAB bars sale of ex-PM Nawaz Sharif’s Jati Umra property

The bureau has strictly barred the sale of Jati Umra palace until the final decision in the corruption cases against Sharif family.

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Meanwhile, a notice has also been dispatched to Federal Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar at his house in Gulberg phase III.

Earlier, NAB had frozen assets of ousted premier Nawaz Sharif, his children Hassan, Hussain and Maryam Nawaz along with his son-in-law Capt (r) Safdar.

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The development had come in hours after finance minister Ishaq Dar’s residence in Islamabad was raided by the accountability bureau and letters were sent to banks to suspend the transactions until further orders.

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NAB also confiscated movable and non-movable assets of Dar.

Notice to Ishaq Dar

Meanwhile, NAB Lahore has also sent notice to Finance Minister Ishaq Dar at his Islamabad and Lahore residence on Thursday night. According to the notice, Dar cannot sell his movable, immovable properties.

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Dar is accused of possessing assets disproportionate to his declared sources of income.

The violation of NAB’s order would result in punishment according to the NAB law’s section 23-A.

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The Sharif family and Dar are presently in London where Nawaz’s wife, Kulsoom, is undergoing treatment for lymphoma.

The family failed to appear in the Islamabad Accountability Court on September 19 with regards to three references filed against them by NAB in light of the Supreme Court’s Panama case judgment of July 28.

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It is to be mentioned here NAB is pursuing references against the Sharif family after Nawaz Sharif was disqualified in a Panama Leaks case by the Supreme Court (SC) on July 28 this year.

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In the latest of developments regarding bureau’s actions, the disqualified premier and his family members were summoned by the department twice but none appeared.

Notices to appear before the accountability court were reissued for September 26.

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