RAWALPINDI: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has challenged in Lahore High Court (LHC) the acquittal of former president Asif Ali Zardari by the Accountability Court (AC) in the assets case.
NAB has said that the court had made the decision about the acquittal of Zardari without any merit and without seeing the evidence. A wrong example has been set by acquitting Zardari after listening to incomplete details of the case, it said.
It has been said in the context of appeal plea that the court did not allow submission of important records and ignored the crucial witnesses of the case. NAB has claimed in the appeal that it has 22,000 verified documents as evidence against Zardari pertaining to offshore companies, Surrey Palace and bank accounts.
NAB further stated in the appeal plea that the material collected from abroad in respect to the case reveals that Zardari and his family own several offshore companies. The record related to Surrey Palace and Mirza Sugar Mills is also available. The court can summon the record if it wills and more proceedings can be initiated on the basis of this record.
NAB took the plea the court rejected illegally solid arguments in assets reference.
NAB Rawalpindi has constituted a special team under special prosecutor Imran Shafiq to pursue the case.
