Documentary evidences of Shahbaz Sharif,sons involvement in money laundering collected: Shahzad Akbar.

ISLAMABAD -- Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Accountability Shahzad Akbar on Wednesday said that the assets of Sharif family had significantly increased in ten years, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz was in power in the Punjab. He said that Shehbaz Sharif had established dozens of paper front companies on employees' names for money laundering and documentary evidences of all these unlawful transactions had been collected and it would not be easy for him to escape the law. Addressing a press conference here, Shazad Akbar said that from 2008 to 2018, mind-blowing increase in assets of Shahbaz Sharif and his sons was detected. He said that source of their income were Telegraphic Transfers sent to them by poor employees of their companies.

He said that the money was sent abroad through Hundi and then sent back via TTs. He said through a paper firm GNC billions of rupees transactions were done by two front men and close friends and call fellows of Salman Shahbaz, Nisar Gill and Ali Ahmed. He said that Shabaz Sharif had taken the plea that his sons were grownup and he was not responsible for their actions. However, he appointed Nisar Gill and Ali Ahmed in Chief Minister office as Director on Political Affairs and Director Policy. He said that one company Nisar Trading Company was registered in the name of Sharif Feed Mills employee Rashid Karamat and Rs 425 million transaction was done in this firm's account.

He said Rs 450 million were deposited in the account of a company Khan Traders, registered in the name of the father of one Gulzar, an employee of Ramzan Sugar Mills . He said Rs 5 billion were deposited in the account of Maqsood and Co, a firm in the name of Malik Maqsood, who worked at the Sharif-owned Chiniot Energy Office as a peon. Similarly Rs 350 million were deposited in the account of Azhar Abbas, Rs 480 million in account of Muhmmad Anwar, Rs 560 million in account of Ghulam Shabbir and Rs 210 million in the account of Tanveerul Haq, all employees of Ramzan Sugar Mills. Overall Rs 17.4 billion were deposited in paper firms and benami accounts of the employees of Shabaz Sharif companies whose monthly salaries were from Rs 18000 per month to Rs...

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