NAB to file review petition against Hudaibiya Paper Mills case verdict
SC had rejected the NAB appeal seeking opening of the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has decided to file a review petition against the Supreme Court (SC) decision in which it rejected NAB plea to reopen the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case, Dunya News reported on Monday.
According to details, NAB will lodge the review application with evidence on legal grounds after consulting with the prosecution team.
Let it be known that a three-member SC bench led by Justice Mushir Alam Rizvi had earlier unanimously rejected the NAB appeal seeking opening of the case, commonly referred to as the Hudaibiya Paper Mills.
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A one-line judgment read by Rizvi said the appeal to reopen the case was dismissed and a detailed verdict would be issued later.
On September 20, NAB filed a petition in the apex court to nullify the decision of Lahore High Court (LHC) to shut Hudaibiya Paper Mills case, clearing Sharifs.
Hudaibiya case:
The prosecution alleges the Sharif family in the 1990s used the company to launder 1.2 billion Pakistani rupees ($10 million) out of the country.
The case was lodged against Nawaz Sharif, his brother and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Shahbaz’s son and Member of National Assembly Hamza Shahbaz and other members over Federal Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar’s confessional statement on April 25, 2000 before magistrate in Lahore.
The reference was afterwards dismissed by LHC referee judge Justice Sardar Shamimon March 11, 2014 in response to a writ petition filed in 2011, stating that Dar was pressurized to record the statement.
