[DAWN] Despite protestations of innocence from the Sharif family lawyers pleading the Panamagate case before the Supreme Court, the German publication Suddeutsche Zeitung has released more documents supposedly linking Maryam Nawaz Sharif... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
to the company that owns the Park Lane flats in London.
After the first round of documents released on Monday was dismissed as "forged" by Shahid Hamid, the counsel for Maryam Nawaz, SZ Investigativ, the investigative arm of the German publication, tweeted more documents on Tuesday, and again on Thursday.
Tuesday’s release consisted of a letter from J. Nizbeth Maduro, money laundering reporting officer for Mossack Fonseca -- the Panamanian law firm whose internal documents comprise the Panama Papers -- to Errol George, Director of the Financial Investigation Agency (FIA) of the British Virgin Islands.
This document, which names Mariam Safdar -- the married name of Maryam Nawaz -- as the beneficial owner of Neilsen Enterprises Limited, is not new and was included in the documents submitted to the SC by the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is
Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
(PTI) alongside the Panamagate petition.
The document states, among other things, that Neilsen "has a loan account with Deutsche Bank Geneva".
However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
in a statement, Maryam Nawaz has already denied being the recipient or a participant in the correspondence between Mossack Fonseca and the British Virgin Islands’ FIA. "Mossack Fonseca is a law firm and not a court of law and no letter of the firm could confer the title of properties on her," her statement submitted to the court said.
Then, on Thursday, SZ Investigativ sent out another couple of tweets containing yet more documents related to the case. The first tweet, which was accompanied by two documents, read: "For public interest the loans from Deutsche Bank AG to two offshore companies owned by [the] daughter of PM of Pakistain according to Panama Papers."
The attached documents bear the heading ’Register of Charges’; one relates to Neilsen and the other to Nescoll and appear to refer to mortgage agreements for apartments 16 and 16A, Avenfield House between Deutsche Bank and the ’holder of the charge’. Interestingly, the addresses provided for the ’Chargee for the Security’ and ’Holder of the Charge’ are the same: the London branch of Deutsche Bank AG.