Never conducted any transaction through Hawala-Hundi, Shahbaz Sharif tells FIA.

LAHORE -- Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, Shahbaz Sharif on Friday told officials of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) that neither had he ever conducted a transaction of the Hawala or Hundi nor did he know anything about it.

This was said by the former Punjab chief minister, according to sources, when a team of the FIA visited him in Kot Lakhpat Jail. The team interrogated Shahbaz about his alleged involvement in laundering millions.

A day earlier, the FIA team had grilled his son Hamza Shahbaz in the same case.

Shahbaz, as per sources, told the FIA team that he had not even earned a single penny through corruption, adding that management of the company's accounts was the responsibility of its chief financial officer.

Shahbaz said he was not aware of large sums of money being deposited into the accounts of peons and other employees. The opposition leader...