ACTION RESEARCH OPINION: S.C FORMED JIT TEAM IS ACTIVATED, COUT DOWN OF NAWAZ SHARIF HAS BEGAN.
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Source: https://arynews.tv/en/sc-forms-jit-probe-sharif-familys-offshore-wealth/
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Source: https://arynews.tv/en/sc-forms-jit-probe-sharif-familys-offshore-wealth/
SC forms JIT to probe Sharif family’s offshore wealth
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Posted on May 5, 2017
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday constituted a six-member joint investigation team (JIT) to probe money trail and offshore properties of the prime minister and his family, ARY News reported.
The JIT will be headed by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)’s director Wajid Zia, while the other members of the JIT include State Bank of Pakistan (SBP)’s Amir Aziz, National Accountability Bureau (NAB)’s Irfan Naeem Mangi, Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP)’s Bilal Rasool, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI)’s Brigadier Muhammed Noman Saeed and Military Intelligence (MI)’s Brigadier Kamran Khursheed.
All of the JIT members are of 18-grade or above officers. Three persons were nominated by each of the above mentioned institutions. Out of them SC had to select one to represent each institute.
The team will submit its final report within next 60 days. The investigating team is also directed to submit fortnightly reports.
It should be recalled here that a bench of the apex court in its judgment, announced on April 20, ordered formation of a JIT under the court’s supervision to investigate the money trail of offshore properties and other unanswered questions of the case against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his two sons Hassan and Hussain Nawaz.
The top court on Tuesday formed a three-member special bench to ensure implementation of apex court’s verdict on Panamagate scandal and monitor the JIT operations.
Earlier, the apex court had rejected the nominees of SBP and SECP for the JIT.
The apex court then ruled that no head of state institution can appoint any nominee for the proposed JIT by summoning governor SBP and chairman SECP.
SECP and SBP had failed to keep secrecy of the names. The bench, headed by Justice Afzal Khan, expressed resentment on leaking of the names before the court proceeding.
Justice Ijaz ul Ahsan said it has been pointed out that the names were leaked to media outlets before submission to the apex court.
“This became the prime factor to discard the names suggested by two state institutions”, Justice Ahsan added.
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