Rs25bn money laundering: FIA team grills Shehbaz Sharif in Kot Lakhpat Jail.

LAHORE -- A team of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrived at Kot Lakhpat Jail on Friday to interrogate Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President and Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif in Rs25 billion money laundering case.

The team quizzed Shehbaz Sharif, who is also Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, about his alleged role in the money laundering. A day earlier, it interrogated his son Leader of the Opposition in Punjab Assembly Muhammad Hamza Shahbaz Sharif in the case.

The FIA had registered the alleged money laundering case of Rs25 billion against him and his two sons, Hamza and Suleman under the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2010.

Earlier, the agency had written a letter to the Punjab prison department seeking...

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