Jailed former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif was grilled for an hour by officials of the anti-graft watchdog on Friday over the Toshakhana vehicles case in which he is alleged to have taken luxury cars from the government storehouse.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief answered someof the questions posed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), while heclaimed to have no knowledge about the others, the Express Tribune reported.
Earlier this month, the NAB widened its investigation intothe Toshakhana vehicles case against Sharif and former president Asif Zardariafter it found that both the leaders were involved in taking cars from thegovernment storehouse.
The NAB team grilled the former premier for an hour inLahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail before handing him an questionnaire, which Sharifwill fill after consulting his legal team, the report said.”As a prime minister, it was not my duty tokeep a check upon the presents or gifts that I was given. All the presents thatI had received as premier, had been submitted in the national treasury…As faras vehicles are concerned, as the prime minister of Pakistan, it was my legaland constitutional right to use them,” the PML-N supremo told the NABteam, the report said.