ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the PM on Accountability Shahzad Akbar while talking to journalists here today claimed that Shehbaz Sharif’s assets increased tremendously in the last decade.
He claimed that the members of Sharif family had been using the names of innocent people to launder money. According to him Shehbaz Sharif had set up more than 30 companies through telegraphic transfers.
According to Shahzad Akbar 3 people (Nisar Gul, Ali Mahar and Tahir Naqvi) had helped Shehbaz launder money. He claimed that these three people were running fake companies for Shehbaz Shehbaz Sharif.
He asked SHehbaz Sharif to answer a number of questions: Were Nasir Gul and Ali Mahar not directors of political affairs; Were they not the owners of a fake company; Didn’t Nasir Gul travel to London, Dubai and Qatar with Salman Shahbaz; Did he not purchase two villas for Tehmina Durrani; Was no sum transferred from Nasir Gul’s account; Gul has confessed to laundering money and he was running a company which laundered Rs. 7 billion.
NAB freezes assets of Shehbaz Sharif, family
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has decided to freeze all the assets of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif, and his family.
The recent development came after NAB Chairman, Justice (Retired) Javed Iqbal approved the application sent by NAB Lahore.
According to NAB Lahore official, the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly will not be able to benefit from his family’s assets which are allegedly based on TT (telegraphic transfer).
According to the notification by the NAB and having signatures by Chairman NAB, the anti-graft body will freeze all the assets of Shehbaz and family including the property of 96-H, Model Town which is Shehbaz Sharif’s residence in Lahore.
“The PML-N leader’s 9-kanal home in Abbottabad has been frozen as well,” said the official.
The NAB Lahore bureau will also freeze the assets of Tehmina Durrani, one of the wives of Shehbaz Sharif.
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