Shehbaz Sharif’s employees laundered Rs9.5 bn: Shehzad Akbar

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Accountability Shehzad Akbar has said that eleven employees of Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif laundered money worth Rs9.5 billion.

Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Shehzad Akbar said that NAB’s case reference against Shehbaz Sharif has been filed in the Accountability Court Lahore.

He said that he was sharing the details of how the Sharif family had run a money-laundering network for 10 years. Shehzad said that NAB has filed a reference against Shehbaz Sharif and children in the money laundering case. The reference consists of 25,000 pages and documentary evidence.

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Shehzad Akbar said that the four accused in the case pleaded guilty and Sultani became a witness. He said that three unnamed front companies were also mentioned in the NAB reference. 

Shehzad Akbar said that the black money obtained from money laundering was used by Shehbaz Sharif. He kept saying that his sons have a business, ask them. The second anonymous company is Unitas, the third is Nisar Trading, Shehzad added.