Earlier, PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday told an accountability court that investigators of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had been repeatedly asking as to why her grandfather gave his business to her.
"They had no question about alleged corruption of a single penny during the 42-day remand except asking reason for inheriting business from my grandfather," said Maryam.
"And I have told them a hundred times that grandparents are supposed to hand over their business to their offspring not to neighbours," she added in her statement before the court.
Rejecting the report submitted by bureau, Maryam said, "How can an arrested person furnish documents?" Maryam claimed before the court that she had been arrested for holding public meetings, which were even censored on media.
Earlier, special prosecutor filed a report with the court seeking 15-day extension in the physical remand of Maryam and her cousin Yousaf Abbas pleading that the suspects remained non-cooperative in the investigation.
He said huge influx of cash was deposited in accounts of the sugar mills between the periods of 2010-19 whereby approximately Rs900 million was credited into its two accounts.
He said Maryam aided and abetted with her father former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and family members in acquisition of and laundering money over Rs2 billion disproportionate to known sources of income. Other beneficiaries of sugar mills' funds are Maryam's late mother Kalsoom Nawaz, brothers Hussain and Hassan, and sister Asma Nawaz.
The prosecutor told the court that during the remand both suspects were confronted with financial record of the CSML pertaining to loan obtained from other companies of the Sharif group but they failed to explain the transactions.
He said the suspects also failed to justify an amount of $15.52 million (equal to Rs400 million at conversion rate in 1992) shown as loan to the sugar mills by three offshore companies. He requested the court to allow further remand of the suspects to procure evidence, detect hidden assets and recovery of crime proceeds.
The defence counsel Amjad Pervez opposed the remand and said the investigation report of the NAB was contrary to facts.
He said the properties and business in question was owned by late Mian Sharif during 1992-99 when he handed over them to his grandchildren. He said Yousaf Abbas never held any public office. He said receiving foreign remittances was not a crime under any law.
The counsel further stated that the JIT made by the Supreme Court in Panama Papers case had already investigated the matter of CSML and found no illegality in it.
Strict security measures taken outside the judicial complex cause a great hurdle to citizens. Lawyers and judges also struggled to reach the complex as all roads were blocked by the police.
A large number of PML-N workers were also denied access to the courtroom. Tehmina Daultana, Azma Bokhari, Hina Pervez Butt, former governor Sindh Muhammad Zubair, Senator Asif Karmani, retired Capt Muhammad Safdar, Talal Chaudhry, Nehal Hashmi and Saira Afzal Tarar attended the proceedings.