The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has decided to produce a new witness against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family in the Avenfield properties case.

NAB Operations Director General (DG), Zahir Shah, will be the new witness because he would bring on record the new documents which he has acquired from British government.

The NAB investigation officer and the DG operations will be the last two persons to record their statements in the case because all the statements of witnesses in the case have been recorded.   

The court will proceeds with the hearing of the case on April 23.

According to the documents which Shah will have to present, the Sharif family's London apartments were transferred to the possession of offshore companies Nielson and Nescoll in 1993-1995, and not in 2005-2006.

Earlier in his statements, Nawaz Sharif has repeatedly said that the Avenfield properties were transferred in the name of the companies in 2005-2006, moreover, they belonged to his children.

But the documents suggest that in 1993-1995 Nawaz’s children Hussain and Hasan were young and did not have any source of income. Thus, they cannot be considered owners of the properties.

The Avenfield properties reference is among three cases filed against Nawaz and his family by NAB in 2017 on the Supreme Court's directives.