ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif`s son, Hussain Nawaz, faced a third grilling session by the joint investigation team (JIT) probing the Panama Papers case on Thursday. He will again be called by the JIT, for a fourth round of questioning.

The prime minister`s son has appeared before the JIT for three sessions during the past five days to defend the money trail of his London properties.

On Thursday, he spent more than six hours in the JIT secretariat at the Federal Judicial Academy (FJA) as he was kept waiting for two hours before being allowed to appear before the JIT.

Hussain Nawaz seemed to be fed up with successive and hours-long sessions with the JIT as he used a Punjabi proverb to express his feelings: `Lassi and arguments can be stretched to any extent.

However, when he emerged from the JIT secretariat, he claimed that there was not an iota of evidence of any wrongdoing or illegality committed by him, his f ather, brother and sister.

`We have not committed any crime; therefore, they will not find any evidence,` he said.

The six-member JIT has been constituted by the Supreme Court to examine the financial transactions of the Sharif family to buy four apartments in Park Lane, London.

Hussain Nawaz said that the JIT had asked him to appear before it again but he had not received a summons yet.

Asked whether his brother Hassan Nawaz and sister Maryam Nawaz would appear before the JIT, he said: `Whoever is summoned [by the JIT], shall appear [before it].

In response to a question about the behaviour of JIT members with him, he warned that they would be taken to the court should they fail to proceed in accordance with the law. `I will also put the matter before people and the media if I am not accorded fair treatment,` he added.

He said that the JIT had asked him to appear before it at 10am and he reached the team`s secretariat on time but they kepthim waiting for two hours and then questioned him for over four hours.

He said that the JIT asked him several questions which he answered. `You may ask the JIT whether my replies were satisf actory or not.

The prime minister`s son said that he had submitted certain documents to the JIT but did not disclose the nature of the papers.

`These documents are a matter between me and the JIT. Since the Supreme Court does not allow us to make the papers public why should I speak about them,` he said when a reporter asked him to share some details of the documents.

However, sources claimed that the premier`s son submitted the record related to the establishment, sale and purchase of the Al-Azizia Steel Mills in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Steel Mills in the United Arab Emirates and further investments in the steel and real estate sectors in the United Kingdom and Qatar.

They said that he also produced a letter of Qatari prince Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al-Thani regarding settlement of the Park Lane flats in lieu of investment made by Hussain Nawaz`s grandfather. The other documents included partnership agreements and incorporation certificates of offshore companies Nescoll and Nielsen.

SECP Team Bilal Rasool, a member of the JIT, has picked four associates from his organisation the Securities and Exchange Commissionof Pakistan-toassisthimin the investigation. The officials are: joint director Hammad Javed, deputy directors Khurram Hussain and Haroon Abdullah and assistant director Anwar Hashmi.

Mr Rasool also took his personal assistant Mohammad Rizwan along to the JIT secretariat at the FJA.

Sources said that the four SECP officials were chartered accounts and their services had been requisitioned to expedite the pace of the investigation.

They said that the JIT might send one of the SECP officials abroad to engage a foreign firm for collection of evidence and forensic audit of certain documents.

The sources said that the SECP team had obtained the documents related to the offshore companies Nescoll and Nielsen and provided it to the JIT.