LAHORE: The Lahore High Court will resume hearing a petition filed by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case.
The LHC has summoned Maryam Nawaz’s lawyers for arguments in her bail plea. The Justice Baqir Najfi will hear her bail plea.
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In a previous hearing, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) presented their written replies over Maryam’s bail plea.
The court granted one-day time to Maryam Nawaz’s lawyer to review NAB’s reply.
Defence counsel in the hearing said that Maryam Nawaz was in jail on judicial remand after completion of her physical remand.
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The counsel further said that the NAB has completed its questioning over the case.
In August, the NAB had arrested Maryam Nawaz, her cousin Yousaf Abbas in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case.
According to the NAB, transactions worth millions of rupees were made under Chaudhry and Shamim mills.
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NAB has also claimed that three foreigners had transferred 11000 shares worth millions of rupees on Maryam Nawaz’s name.
Rs7 million worth of shares were transferred to Maryam Nawaz in 2008 through mill’s shares, which were later transferred to Yousaf Abbas Sharif in 2010.
NAB revealed that Sharif Family had used Chaudhry Sugar Mills for money-laundering and illegal transfer of its shares.
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