ISLAMABAD: An accountability court is to resume hearing of the assets reference filed against former finance minister Ishaq Dar by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as the court has summoned more five prosecution witnesses to testify against Dar today.
Judge Muhammad Bashir is conducting Dar’s trial in connection with a reference filed against him by NAB in compliance of Supreme Court’s landmark July 28 verdict, accusing him of amassing assets beyond known means of income.
At the last hearing on Jan 26, prosecution witnesses Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Deputy Director Saeed Ahmed Khan, Lahore Excise and Taxation Officer (ETO) Mohammad Naeem, former Nadra director Qaboos Aziz, analyst Zafar Iqbal Mufti, Inland Revenue Commissioner Ishtiaq Ahmed Khan, and Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Deputy Director Mirza Faizur Rehman documented their records before the court.
The witnesses provided bank account details of the former finance minister and his family in the NAB reference.
LDA official Rehman submitted records of Dar’s property in Lahore’s Gulberg area. He revealed that the property had previously belonged to film star Deeba.
Earlier, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) vacated its stay order, permitting the accountability court to resume ex parte proceedings against Dar.
The court discarded his plea to suspend his declaration as proclaimed offender by the trial court in the graft reference.
According to the NAB reference, the accused had acquired assets and pecuniary interests/resources in his name or in the name of his dependents of an approximate amount of Rs831.678 million as per the investigation conducted so far.
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