
ISLAMABAD, APRIL 24: Deposed Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif and former PM Benazir Bhutto would face a number of corruption references filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in the near future, NAB chairman Lieutenant General Syed Mohammad Amjad has said.
Apart from the already filed references against Sharif or Bhutto family members, a number of other mega corruption cases will also be moved against them, he said.
So far, three references – Ittefaq Foundary, Mi-8 Chopper and Hydaibya – have been filed against Amjad, however, hinted that the Sharifs will face references in cases like Raiwind, Motorway, SROs, Yellow Cabs and many more, though there will be a number of people who will be facing cases in the cooperative scam. He said all possible steps will be taken to prevent sale of the London flats owned by the Sharif family, though he deliberately avoided to disclose the mode to be applied for prevention of the sale of these flats. These are civil matters in London, though in Pakistan these fall in the category of criminal charges, he said explaining the problem being faced in preventing the sale of Sharif flats in London. "Once the process is completed in Pakistan, the London court will be applied that these flats should not be allowed for sale as these are built on ill-gotten money," he said. Amjad said during his 49-hour stay in London, he met Rehman Malik, who provided him important information which helped him trace a major case to be surfaced soon. "By the time I met Malik, my team also acquired that information. Had he met me earlier, our efforts would have been saved," he added. On being asked about any drug-related case against Sharif, he said "there is no drug-related case against Sharif and I am not in the know of any complaint by anyone that the Sharifs had transferred and deposited drug money abroad." Amjad said in the near future there will around 200 to 250 references to be filed, which include cases against Nawaz Sharif, and Benazir Bhutto. He said it is hard to investigate the money and its source, which is deposited in the banks, and once it is done under the rules then comes the question of its repatriation which is a complicated, tedious and long-drawn process.


