Dar corruption reference: Defence lawyer completes cross-examination of prosecution witness
Judge Muhammad Bashir heard the case.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Defence lawyer completed the cross-examination of prosecution witness Sherdil Khan and recorded his statement in a reference filed by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against former finance minister Ishaq Dar.
Judge Muhammad Bashir heard the case during which the accused National Bank president Saeed Ahmad and Hajveri Modaraba directors Naeem Mehmood and Mansoor Raza Rizvi appeared before the court.
In his statement, the prosecution witness told that currently he is working as DG Finance and appeared before the investigation officer in NAB Lahore on August 22.
NAB had summoned the complete record of Ishaq Dar’s salary and allowances from me, added Sherdil.
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He told that the record of the former finance minister as an MNA from 1993 to 1996 was presented along with a covering letter.
“I also submitted the details of payments to Ishaq Dar. NAB also took my signature on a memo after receiving the said documents. In the mentioned four years, at least Rs7,26,640 were paid to Dar in terms of gross salary and allowances,” said the prosecution witness.
The hearing was adjourned till May 9 after the proceedings were concluded. However; the cross-examination of the second witness Muhammad Azeem could not be held.
Corruption case
Ishaq Dar, 67, was indicted in September 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.
