ISLAMABAD: An accountability court is to resume hearing a graft reference on Wednesday (today), filed against former finance minister Ishaq Dar by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in compliance of the Supreme Court’s July 28 verdict.
NAB Investigation Officer (IO) Nadir Abbas will document his statement before the court today.
Earlier today, NAB prosecutor requested Judge Mohammad Bashir to grant the prosecution some time as the investigation officer was on his way to the court.
The accountability judge then adjourned the hearing till 11:30 am today.
According to the NAB reference, Dar had acquired assets and pecuniary interests/resources in his name or in the name of his dependents of an approximate amount of Rs831.678 million as per the investigation conducted so far.
Last hearing
In the previous hearing on Monday, Wajid Zia, head of the Supreme Court-appointed JIT to probe the Sharif family’s wealth, appeared before the accountability court to record his statement in the assets reference filed against former finance minister Ishaq Dar.
The court recorded the statement of the JIT head, who has been named as a witness in the case.
Wajid Zia submitted the Volume I and IX of the JIT report to the judge.
He informed the court that the former finance minister’s assets were around Rs 9.1 million in 1999 as per his wealth statement, which increased to Rs831.6 million in 2008-09.
He stated that Dar failed to provide any proof to the JIT to justify how his assets multiplied by leaps and bounds in a decade.
The former finance minister had been declared a proclaimed offender over his perpetual absence from the trial proceedings.
Earlier, the IHC had permitted the accountability court to resume ex parte proceedings against Ishaq Dar after discarding his plea to suspend his declaration as proclaimed offender by the accountability court in the graft reference.
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