LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif has skipped the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) hearing today due to coronavirus situation in the country.
According to party spokesperson Attaullah Tarar, Shehbaz Sharif is a cancer survivor and his health does not permit him to appear before NAB amid the current coronavirus situation.
He was earlier summoned by the NAB in the money laundering case on today. The bureau ordered the PML-N president to bring his properties’ detailed records including his foreign assets and other businesses owned by him.
According to NAB, Shehbaz’s family assets grew from Rs23 million to Rs549 billion between 1998 and 2018. “As a public office holder Shehbaz needs to explain the increase in his assets,” NAB said.
In response to the summons, the PML-N’s spokesperson maintained that Sharif has submitted his written reply to NAB in this regard, adding that the opposition leader was earlier detained for 130 days out of which he spent 61 days under NAB custody where he was interrogated in detail.
Furthermore, the bureau has frozen a cottage and a villa in Pir Sohawa and two more plots in Chiniot of Shehbaz Sharif. Moreover, the NAB sealed his nine plots in Lahore’s Johar Town, four in Judicial Colony, two houses in Model Town and as many houses in DHA.
According to the accountability bureau, other than Shehbaz Sharif, his sons Hamza Shehbaz and Suleman Shehbaz were nominated in the same case.
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