ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has broadened the scopeof its investigation against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in theToshakhana reference.
Sources privy to the development relayed the national graft buster hassought details of the PML-N supremo’s bank accounts, vehicles, andproperties from the relevant departments.
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The bureau wrote to the Lahore Development Authority (LDA), the deputycommissioner of Lahore, the excise and taxation department, and privatebanks for the purpose, they said.
The corruption watchdog further asked the LDA to provide documentsregarding 1,550 kanal land in Lahore said to be owned by Sharif besidesseeking the record of a Mercedes and a Land Cruiser that he had been usingfrom the excise and taxation department.
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On September 9, an accountability court had declared Nawaz Sharif aproclaimed offender in the Toshakhana reference. Ex-PM Sharif, formerpresident Asif Ali Zardari and former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gillaniare named in the reference for allegedly obtaining luxury vehicles from thetreasury by paying 15 per cent of the actual price.
It is noteworthy that the court had indicted Zardari and Gillani in thecase on the same date.
