The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has decided to declare former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif a proclaimed offender in the property case involving Mir Shakilur Rehman.
The watchdog body will approach an accountability court to declare Nawaz Sharif a proclaimed offender in the case.
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NAB has also issued warrants for the arrest of Nawaz Sharif in this case and now it would move the accountability court to have the PML-N patron declared a proclaimed offender.
NAB has taken the plea that Nawaz Sharif has not appeared before it despite repeated notices or answered the questions sent to him.
The bureau stated that Nawaz had illegally leased 54 kanals of land to Rehman in 1986 during his tenure as the Punjab chief minister.
Sharif is currently in London for treatment after having been granted bail on medical grounds.
On March 27, NAB had sent a questionnaire to Nawaz and had summoned him to the bureau office on March 31 to record his statement.
Earlier on March 15, NAB’s Lahore office had summoned the PML-N quid to appear before the bureau on March 20, but no response came from him. Rehman was arrested in Lahore on March 12.
