ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has filed an acquittal in a money laundering case.
Significant progress has been made in the FIA money laundering case against PM Shehbaz Sharif. He has filed a plea of not guilty in the case.
Shehbaz Sharif’s lawyer Amjad Pervez Advocate filed a plea of not guilty. Sharif has reached the court in a money laundering case along with the son and Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz. Shehbaz Sharif is likely to be charged today as he was submitting an application for exemption from attendance from the last three appearances.
The FIA had booked PM Shehbaz and his sons, Hamza and Suleman, in November 2020 along with 14 others. The special court had on January 27 granted pre-arrest bail to Shehbaz and Hamza in the case.
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The FIA investigation has detected 28 benami accounts, allegedly of the Shehbaz family, through which an amount to the tune of PKR 14 billion was laundered from 2008 until 2018.
The FIA examined the money trail of 17,000 credit transactions and the amount was kept in “hidden accounts” and given to Shehbaz in his personal capacity.
