The Sindh High Court on Friday allowed Pakistan Peoples Party MPA and former provincial information minister Sharjeel Memon to travel abroad only for one month with the permission of the trial court.
NAB put on notice over Sharjeel Memon’s plea for permission to travel aboard
July 24, 2021
The Sindh High Court has issued notices to the special prosecutor of the National Accountability Bureau and a federal law officer on a petition filed by Pakistan Peoples Party MPA and former information minister Sharjeel Memon seeking permission to travel abroad.
Sharjeel, who has been facing two NAB references pertaining to charges of Rs5.78 billion advertisement corruption and accumulation of Rs2.43 billion assets beyond known sources of income but is on bail in these cases, approached court for permission to travel aboard from time to time.
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has issued a notice to the National Accountability Bureau on an application of former Sindh minister Sharjeel Memon seeking permission to travel abroad.
The former information minister, who has been facing trial in two corruption references before accountability courts in Karachi and one reference in Islamabad, through his lawyer moved the SHC.
The counsel contended that the applicant, who had already been on bail in these references, was willing to visit the USA regarding the admission of his daughter in a university there and added that the former minister was ready to fulfil the conditions to be imposed by the court in this regard.