LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shehbaz on Tuesday appeared before the accountability court in the money laundering case.
During the hearing, Shehbaz Sharif has presented the report of Transparency International in court and asked who was responsible for corruption in Pakistan. The judge directed him to refrain from political statements in court.
Previously, the PML-N president had submitted an appreciation letter of Chinese ambassador in the court on which the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) prosecutor raised objections. Shehbaz Sharif told that the court there was no doctor dealing with cancer patients in the government panel. He requested to include his personal doctor on the board.
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Director General NAB Lahore had submitted a report in the court through an investigation officer on freezing the properties of Shehbaz Sharif’s wife Nusrat Shahbaz, daughter Rabia Imran and others.
The accountability court had declared Shehbaz Sharif’s wife Nusrat Shahbaz a proclaimed offender in a money laundering case. Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shehbaz Sharif were indicted in money laundering reference by the accountability court on November 11 last year.
NAB team had arrested Shehbaz Sharif in money laundering case on September 28 last year after Lahore High Court (LHC) rejected his bail plea. A two-member bench of the Lahore High Court comprising Justice Sardar Ahmed Naeem and Justice Farooq Haider heard the plea, during which Shehbaz Sharif’s lawyer presented his arguments.
