ISLAMABAD:
An accountability courtroom in Islamabad adjourned on Thursday the listening to of references towards former president Asif Ali Zardari and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif within the Toshakhana case.
Decide Muhammad Bashir of the anti-graft courtroom didn’t hear the case in the present day because of the ongoing listening to of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan at Rawalpindi Central Jail.
The listening to pertains to autos taken from the Toshakhana by the co-chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Get together (PPP), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo, PPP chief Yousuf Raza Gilani and others.
It needs to be famous that the NAB couldn’t file a supplementary reference towards the accused.
The listening to of the case was adjourned until January 15.
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Zardari and Nawaz have been accused by the nation’s high anti-corruption physique of illegally retaining costly autos gifted to them by completely different overseas states and dignitaries as a substitute of depositing them within the Toshakhana.
The NAB additionally maintained that Gilani, throughout his tenure because the prime minister, facilitated the PPP co-chairman in retaining the autos.
In line with the anti-corruption physique, Zardari and Nawaz retained the autos “towards a nominal cost of 15% of their whole worth” by way of “dishonest and unlawful means for his or her private profit and curiosity”.
The anti-graft courtroom had indicted Zardari and Gillani within the Toshakhana case on September 9, 2020. The courtroom had additionally declared Nawaz a proclaimed offender in the identical matter.