Islamabad (May 12, 2017): The meeting of the joint investigation team (JIT) constituted by Supreme Court as per its verdict in the Panama Papers case started at Federal Judicial Academy.
The meeting of the JIT is being presided over by its head Wajid Zia, an additional director general of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).
Sources said that during today’s meeting the JIT is deliberating over the procedure to obtain certified documents from abroad.
They said that the JIT will write letter to concerned ministries and departments for acquiring relevant records.
The committee will also discuss the Qatri letter and related issues.
It is to be mentioned here that on Thursday the JIT had sought the asset declarations of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his son-in-law retired Captain Mohammad Safdar from the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
The JIT had sought the asset declarations of PM Sharif from 1999, but the ECP expressed its inability to provide those, since the law making submission of asset details to the ECP mandatory was introduced in 2002.
Since Mr Sharif was sent into exile after the military coup of 1999 and did not contest elections until 2013, the ECP did not have details of his assets until that year.
The ECP’s secrecy branch, sources said, had prepared a file containing Mr Sharif’s asset declarations from 2013 to 2016.
According to the JIT’s terms of reference, it is mandated to probe how the Gulf Steel Mill come into being; what led to its sale; what happened to its liabilities; how did they reach Jeddah, Qatar and the UK; whether Hussain and Hassan Nawaz had the means in the early 1990s to possess and purchase the London flats; whether the sudden appearance of the letters of Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jaber Al-Thani is a myth or a reality; who, in fact, is the real and beneficial owner of the Nielsen Enterprises Ltd and Nescoll Ltd; how did Hill Metal Establishment come into existence; where did the money for Flagship Investment Ltd and other companies set up/taken over by the son of the PM come from; and where do the huge sums gifted by Hussain Nawaz to Nawaz Sharif come from.
The apex court has already empowered the JIT to summon Prime Minister Sharif and both his sons, as and when required.
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