ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court of Pakistan resumed the Panama Papers case hearing on Monday.
During the hearing of the Panamagate case, NAB prosecutor general Waqas Kabir Dar submitted a hand-written application by the finance minister to chairman NAB seeking pardon in April 2000.
According to Waqas, Dar had also submitted a confessional statement with the written application in which he said his involvement in the Sharif family’s money laundering case was out of free will. Following this, Dar was granted pardon on April 25, 2000.
Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan observed that Dar’s confessional statement could be used against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as circumstantial evidence.
The Supreme Court on Friday directed NAB to inform the apex court whether Dar was conditionally or unconditionally pardoned in Rs1.2 billion Hudaibiya Paper Mills scam.