LAHORE: The passport of Maryam Nawaz, Vice President of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), has been submitted in the Lahore High Court (LHC) upon the orders of the court.
Maryam’s husband Muhammad Safdar has submitted the passport of PML-N leader in the court.
Reportedly, Maryam’s surety bond will be approved after scrutiny of her passport and Rs70 million of the deposited amount. After thorough consideration, the court will issue ‘robkar’ (mandamus) for her release. LHC on Monday had granted Maryum bail.
During the hearing on Monday, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) prosecutor had told the LHC that the petitioner sought bail for looking after her father Nawaz Sharif, however, the law has no space for such a genre of bail. The prosecutor had pleaded LHC to reject the petition and declare it non-maintainable.
NAB had taken Maryam Nawaz into custody on August 8 citing her involvement in Chaudhry Sugar Mills case.
The bureau had summoned the PML-N vice president to launch a probe into the corruption case but as she did not appear, was taken into custody from Kot Lakhpat jail where she was meeting her father, former PM Nawaz Sharif.
Chaudhry Sugar Mills case
The Sharif family has been accused of using Chaudhry Sugar Mills for money-laundering and illegal transfer of its shares.
According to NAB, the family took a $15 million loan on the pretext to set up the mill despite the fact that it had already been established before the loan was acquired.
The NAB maintains that more than Rs7 million worth of shares were transferred to PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz in 2008 through mill’s shares, which were later transferred to her cousin Yousaf Abbas Sharif in 2010.
It is to mention here that the Court has already granted bail to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in same case.
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(With input from INP)
