Shahzad Akbar accuses Shehbaz of money laundering.
Again slamming Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly (NA) and President of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Shehbaz Sharif, Advisor to the Prime Minister on Accountability and Interior Shahzad Akbar stated on Friday that money laundering charges against him had been proven.
He told a press conference in Islamabad that Shehbaz had opened bank accounts in the names of ordinary Ramzan Sugar Mills workers.
“There were 28 such accounts when he was the Chief Minister of Punjab between 2008 and 2018,” he said, adding that “Rs16 billion was laundered through these very accounts.”
Almost 17,000 transactions were completed. That is why it took the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) a year to gather their information.”
In addition, he accused former Finance Minister Ishaq Dar of opening benami accounts.
According to the PM’s advisor, Shehbaz and his son, Punjab Assembly Leader Hamza Shehbaz, failed to satisfy the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) during interrogation.
“Despite the fact that Gulzar Ahmad, a peon at Ramzan Sugar Mills, was long dead, Shehbaz Sharif and his family continued to withdraw money from his account,” Shahzad claimed.
Aurangzeb Butt was another employee whose name was used to open the account. “One billion rupees were transferred into his account,” he added.
He claimed that a man named Masroor Anwar would withdraw large sums from Gulzar’s account and deposit them in the accounts of Shehbaz and Hamza.
He went on to say that the PML-N president and others were released in the Hudaibya Paper Mills case on technical grounds rather than on merit.
The advisor to the Prime Minister emphasised the importance of having such cases tried on a daily basis, saying that convicting people like Shehbaz in corruption cases would be impossible unless there was a thorough investigation.
He urged accountability courts, high courts, and the Supreme Court to hear money laundering and other graft cases against Shehbaz Sharif’s family on a daily basis so that truth could be separated from falsehood.
“As a government, we are obligated to provide you with all types of facilities.” We will call witnesses. “The rest is your responsibility, as well as that of the prosecution,” he said.
Shahzad warned that the country would remain on the grey list as long as there were no cases of money laundering.
He told the media that challan, which had been submitted to the court, in Shehbaz’s family’s benami accounts case was not complete since some of those nominated in it were at large, including Shehbaz’s other son Suleman Shehbaz.
“The revelations made in the challan are worth pondering over,” he said, adding that the NAB had also submitted to the court seven volumes containing proofs of PML-N president’s money laundering along with the challan.
Advisor to the PM went on to say that there was another money laundering case against Shehbaz in which too he had been found guilty.
“Both the cases: the one under review right now and the previous one are same; the only difference is that in the former PML-N president has emerged as a mastermind,” he elaborated.
