Hearing of supplementary reference against Ishaq Dar adjourned till Mar 5
The court has ordered to provide full copy of NAB reference to the accused.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Accountability court on Wednesday has adjourned the hearing of supplementary reference against former finance minister Ishaq Dar till March 5.
During the hearing headed by Justice Mohammad Bashir, nominated suspects National Bank of Pakistan President Saeed Ahmed and the directors of two companies owned by Dar - Naeem Mahmood and Mansoor Raza appeared in the court.
Saeed’s lawyer requested to provide full copy of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) reference against Dar after which the court ordered to do the needful and adjourned the hearing.
Previously, prosecution witness Inam Ishaq, who is a project director at Alfalah Cooperative Housing Society, had recorded his statement in assets beyond income reference against Ishaq Dar.
The witness said that he had provided membership form of Dar’s two kanal plot to NAB. He said that Dar, his wife and son have one plot each. Inam Ishaq told the court that he had also given letter of society’s president to the NAB.
In December 2017, the anti-corruption court had declared Dar, currently seeking medical treatment in London, an “absconder” after he repeatedly failed to appear before it in a graft case linking to the Panama Papers scandal.
He was indicted in October last year in a graft case in which he is accused of making assets that were “disproportionate to his known sources of income”.
The case was filed against him by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in the light of the Supreme Court order of July 28 that disqualified Nawaz Sharif as prime minister in the Panama Papers scandal.
In its case against Dar, the NAB has alleged that the accused has acquired assets and pecuniary interests/resources in his own name and/or in the name of his dependants of an approximate amount of Rs 831.678 million.
Dar is in London since October and has been seeking treatment of an undefined heart complication at a Harley Street hospital.
