LAHORE: The Lahore High Court will hear the bail plea of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Hamza Shehbaz today in the Ramzan Sugar Mills case.
Justice Muhammad Tariq Abbasi will conduct the hearing of Hamza Shehbaz’s bail plea. In a previous hearing, the court directed the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to submit its response in the same case.
Justice Baqir Najfi conducted the hearing. As the hearing started, the bench remarked that earlier Hamza Shahbaz raised objection over the LHC’s bench.
The plea was filed by Amjad Pervaiz Advocate on behalf of the PML-N leader earlier in December for Hamza’s release in the LHC in the same case. The petition stated that the NAB initiated the Mills case with wicked intentions.
The petition added that the NAB found no evidence against Hamza, while co-accused in case Shehbaz Sharif has already granted bail by the court.
In the year 2018, Hamza’s assets were found to be worth Rs410 million. He could not prove assets worth Rs380 million, and the money was laundered to Dubai and England, and 40 individuals were involved in the money laundering.
On 9th April, Hamza and his father and PML-N President Shehbaz were accused by the court in the same case. Both accused denied the charges against them and maintained that they had saved Rs2,300 billion, assuring that the money was not misused. On 11th June, Hamza was arrested by the NAB in the same case.
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