Maryam Nawaz owned London Flats in 2006: Lawyer Sharif Family
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ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court of Pakistan resumed the Panama Papers case hearing on Thursday.
The counsel for the Sharif family admitted before the apex court that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz owned four flats in Mayfair, London for at least six months in 2006.
Sharifs’ counsel Salman Akram Raja told the five-judge bench – which is hearing a slew of petitions filed against the ruling family over alleged corruption – that Maryam had been a legal beneficiary of the London flats in the upscale Park Lane neighbourhood from February to July 2006 as she possessed bearer shares regarding ownership.
He claimed, however, that in July, the shares were registered in the name of Minerva Services Limited, a company which the premier’s family previously identified as a “service provider” to Nielsen and Nescoll – offshore companies owned by the PM’s son Hussain Nawaz.
Upon this, Justice Azmat Saeed Sheikh called for documentary evidence which could show the authorised representatives of Minerva Services.
In his response, the Sharifs’ counsel said Minerva was authorised by a trustee service company which is now owned by the PM’s son.
