Islamabad: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) lodged a reference against five people, including former President Asif Ali Zardari and former Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Yousaf Raza Gillani, as per recent development in fake bank accounts case.
Omni Group Chief Anver Majeed and his son Abdul Ghani Majeed, close associates of Asif Zardari, were also named in the reference filed for paying the taxes of the luxury vehicles imported via Toshakhana.
According to the reference filed by the anti-corruption watchdog, Gillani had illegally allotted cars and gave undue favour to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman.
Furthermore, Asif Ali Zardari had only paid 15 percent price of the car by Anver Majeed and his son through a fake bank account, the reference stated.
“Asif Zardari asked Anwar Majeed and Abdul Ghani Majeed to pay for the taxes of the vehicles,” it said adding that they used the fake bank accounts to pay the amount.
The reference said that the former president kept the luxury vehicles given as gifts from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Libya instead of handing them over to Toshakhana and paid their tax amounts using fake bank accounts.
Moreover, the reference states that Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was given car from Toshakhana in 2008 by the PPP government despite the fact that he did not hold any official position in the government.
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NAB has requested the court to conduct a trial and sentence the accused to the strictest possible jail terms according to the law for their involvement in the corruption scam.
The accused have committed corruption under section 9-A’s sub-section two, four seven and twelve of NAB ordinance, therefore, they must be given tough sentence as per law, the reference stated.
It is to be mentioned here that the reference was filed after the approval of NAB Chairman Justice (r) Javed Iqbal.