LAHORE – The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is likely to lodge areference against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif if he failed to appearbefore the anti-graft agency tomorrow (May 20).

The anti-graft watchdog had summoned ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif onMay 20 in a corruption case pertaining to the alleged misuse of authorityto get constructed a road from Ada Plot to Jati Umra in 1998.

A three-member team of the Bureau is interrogating the former premier withregard to the probe into alleged illegal construction of the road inRaiwind for personal use, utilizing taxpayers’ money.

Sharif has been accused of misusing his authority as prime minister in 1998to allow construction of the road leading to his residence in Jati Umra.

According to sources, the road was illegally widened from 20 feet to 24feet. The case involves the alleged misappropriation of Rs125 million.

The former prime minister is facing a myriad of corruption cases since hisouster on July 28, 2017 by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in thehigh-profile Panama Papers case.

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo was disqualified by theSupreme Court over an undeclared source of income.Sharif along with his sons-Hussain and Hassan – had been named in three NABreferences, while his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Captain (r)Safdar have been nominated in a reference with regard to the Shariffamily’s London-based Avenfield properties.

The references were filed in compliance with the Supreme Court’s July 28verdict last year.