Lahore: Pakistan’s top investigative body has registered an FIR against top opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif, a friend of Prime Minister Imran Khan and three others in connection with a multi-billion rupee sugar scam. (FIR) is recorded.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Sunday arrested Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shahbaz Sharif, his sons Hamza and Suleiman, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s friend Jahangir Tarin and his son Ali Tarin. Filed money laundering, forgery, criminal treason, and fraud with government shareholders.
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In this case, Tarin and his son are accused of fraud and money laundering of Rs 4.35 billion while Shahbaz and his son are surrounded by similar allegations of Rs 25 billion. A few days back, the Lahore High Court had directed the Pakistan Securities and Exchange Commission and the FIA against Tarin’s JDW Sugar Mills and Farooqi Pulp Mills and Shahbaz’s Al-Arabiya Sugar Mills on the basis of ‘procedural flaws and dictatorial exercise’ The case registered with the FIA was dismissed.
The court granted him the right to proceed without any discrimination against the persons involved in the sugar scam, the FIA said. Shahbaz and his son Hamza are in judicial custody in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail in another money laundering case registered by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) while their younger son Suleiman is in London and a local court has declared him absconding in the NAB money laundering case. Has done. Tarin and his son have recently returned from London. Ali owns the Pakistan Super League franchise ‘Multan Sultan’. The FIA has not made any arrests in the case so far.
