Lahore: The British authorities have not allowed Pakistan’s anti-graft body to collect evidence from the properties in London owned by ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family, asking it to use a “government-to- government” channel to get the official information.

However, the National Accountability Bureau managed to record statements of those involved in conducting a forensic examination of the Calibri font used by Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz while presenting “fake” documents to the Supreme Court in the Panama Papers scandal.

The NAB team returned on Tuesday after a week’s stay in London during which it recorded statements of important witnesses.

“The NAB team had succeeded in recording the statements of witnesses   who had carried out the examination of the Calibri font used in documents presented in court by Maryam and also a few individuals regarding the purchase of the Avenfield properties,” a NAB official said. However, it failed to get any help from the UK authorities in this regard.