ISLAMABAD: The Joint Investigation Team, probing offshore companies of Sharif family, will visit Qatar to record statement of Qatari prince, a local newspaper quoting sources said on Tuesday.
The high profile JIT has decided to send its one member to Doha to record Prince Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabar Al-Thani’s statement.
Former prime minister of Qatar Prince Sheikh Hamad had written another letter to the JIT, appointed by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in the PanamaLeaks case, to provide him the schedule for its visit to Qatar’s capital Doha.
The Supreme Court has given July 10 deadline to the JIT to submit its final report.
It is the third letter that the Qatari prince has written to the JIT on the same subject where he has informed the team that he would welcome it in his office and verify all the content and facts that he wrote in his letter that was produced in the Supreme Court of Pakistan with regard to his family’s business association with the Sharif family of Pakistan.
Highly-placed sources close to Prince Hamad told The News from Doha on Sunday evening that the prince has declined to oblige the JIT to visit the Pakistan Embassy in Doha under the plea that the jurisdiction doesn’t apply on him for the subject.
The sources said that the JIT has hinted the prince that it would visit Doha for his statement and gathering the relevant documents. The team asked for the meeting/recording of the statement in Pakistan’s Embassy.
The prince has made it clear that he would establish each and every word of his letter through unimpeachable evidence that was produced in the Supreme Court. He has informed that all the documents required proving his contention would also be made available once the JIT comes to Doha. The third letter was written to the team last week.
The prince, who is from Al-Thani ruling royal family of Qatar, is among the world’s top category investors, and has maintained that he would welcome the JIT upon its visit to his country’s capital.
The probing team has questioned PM Nawaz Sharif, his sons Hussain Nawaz, Hasan Nawaz, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, captain (retd) Safdar and also summoned Maryam Nawaz on July 05.
