Islamabad (December 18, 2017): The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) can file a review petition on the Supreme Court’s verdict on the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case, sources told Abb Takk on Monday.
On December 15, a three-member Supreme Court bench dismissed NAB’s appeal to reopen the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case.
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The NAB legal team received the Supreme Court’s decision’s copy today and after a brief deliberation agreed to file a review petition against the decision.
The one-line order, read out by Justice Alam, stated that NAB’s appeal to reopen the case is dismissed and a detailed verdict will be issued later.
The Rs1.2 billion Hudaibiya Paper Mills case, involving money laundering charges against the Sharif family, was initiated by NAB in 2000 but quashed by the Lahore High Court (LHC) in 2014. The NAB had appealed the LHC decision in the Supreme Court.
It was in relation to this case that the Sharif family’s trusted aide, Ishaq Dar, recorded a confessional statement on April 25, 2000 in front of a magistrate in Lahore accepting his role in laundering money.That reference was struck down by a referee judge of the LHC on March 11, 2014 in response to a writ petition filed in 2011 stating that Dar’s confession was coerced.
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