A prosecution witness Friday produced details of 15 bank accounts of former Finance Minister Muhammad Ishaq Dar, his wife and his companies before the Accountability Court hearing a corruption reference against him.
While recording his statement before the Accountability Court Judge Muhammad Bashir, prosecution witness Zafar Iqbal, a banking expert of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore, said the NAB investigation officer had asked him to submit details of bank accounts of Dar, his wife Tabassum Ishaq Dar and his companies in August 2017. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) had issued summons to different banks for provision of information, he further told the court. According to the bank credit report, Dar and his wife have 15 bank accounts.
Iqbal further said that out of 15 banks accounts, eight are companies' accounts. Nine out of total accounts were in Al Baraka Bank, of which eight were companies' accounts and one was opened in the name of Dar's wife. He further told the court that his report is regarding credit/inflow transfer through cash funds transfer and other modes. "I had noted title of account, date of opening and closing, name of bank and branch as well as amount routed through these accounts," he told the court.
He further told the court that Rs 18 million cash had been deposited in accounts of Dar and his family at different times, while Rs 1.67 billion were deposited in these accounts through cheques and other means. He said that Rs 1.57 billion were in these accounts in August 2017.
The court also recorded statements of prosecution witnesses including Excise and Taxation Officer, Lahore, Muhammad Naeem, former Director National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) Syed Qaboos Aziz, Deputy Director Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Syed Ahmad Khan, Commissioner Inland Revenue Ashfaq Ahmad Khan and Deputy Director Land Development, Lahore Development Authority (LDA), Mirza Faiz Rehman.
While recording his statement, ETO Naeem told the court that he appeared before the NAB team on August 22, 2017 and provided details of vehicles owned by Dar and his family. He said that three vehicles had been registered in Dar's name and one of which, worth more than Rs 3,400,000, was transferred to Tabassum Ishaq's name by Dar. Dar's also transferred another vehicle to the name of Syeda Zuhara Mansoor.
While testifying his statement, Former Director NADRA Aziz said he appeared before the NAB team on August 21, 2017 and provided Dar's family tree, covering letter of NADRA and personal information about Dar's daughter Sadiqua Adil Rana to the investigation officer.
Another witness, Deputy Director ECP Syed Ahmad Khan, produced before the court the assets' details of Dar, submitted in the ECP from 2003 to 2016. Commissioner Inland Revenue, Ashfaq Ahmad Khan produced income tax record of past 30 years of Dar before the court.
Prosecution witness Deputy Director Land Development LDA Mirza Faiz Rehman told the court that he appeared before the NAB team on August 17, 2017 in Lahore and provided property details of Dar including sale deed, transfer letter and completion certificate.
He further told the court that Dar had purchased a plot from actress Deeba in 1988. The judge observed that the witness will be responsible for protection of record. The court after recording the statement summoned eight more witnesses on the next hearing to be held on January 29.
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