Pakistan’s top anti-graft body today froze the bank accounts and seized the properties of ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family members who are facing corruption and money laundering charges.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) told PTI today that they have written to the State Bank of Pakistan and commercial banks that since Sharif and his family are facing the NAB references, their bank accounts may be cautioned.
Sharif stepped down after Pakistan’s Supreme Court disqualified him on 28th July from continuing in his office for
dishonesty in the Panama Papers scandal.
The court ruled that corruption cases be filed against him and his children.
The Accountability Court, which is hearing the corruption cases against the Sharif family, today summoned Sharif, his daughter Maryam and son-in-law Safdar to appear before it on 26th of September.
NAB displayed the summons and property attachment notices on the Sharifs’ residence in Raiwind.
Sharif along with his children is in London to see his ailing wife Kulsoom.
Source: AIR