ISLAMABAD, May 13 (APP):Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Accountability Shahzad Akbar on Wednesday said that the assets of Sharif family had significantly increased in ten years, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz was in power in the Punjab.
He said that Shehbaz Sharif had established dozens of paper front
companies on employees’ names for money laundering and documentary
evidences of all these unlawful transactions had been collected and
it would not be easy for him to escape the law.
Addressing a press conference here, Shazad Akbar said that from 2008
to 2018, mind-blowing increase in assets of Shahbaz Sharif and his
sons was detected. He said that source of their income were
Telegraphic Transfers sent to them by poor employees of their
companies. He said that the money was sent abroad through Hundi and
then sent back via TTs.
He said through a paper firm GNC billions of rupees transactions were
done by two front men and close friends and call fellows of Salman
Shahbaz, Nisar Gill and Ali Ahmed. He said that Shabaz Sharif had
taken the plea that his sons were grownup and he was not responsible
for their actions. However, he appointed Nisar Gill and Ali Ahmed in
Chief Minister office as Director on Political Affairs and Director
Policy.
He said that one company Nisar Trading Company was registered in the
name of Sharif Feed Mills employee Rashid Karamat and Rs 425 million
transaction was done in this firm’s account. He said Rs 450 million
were deposited in the account of a company Khan Traders, registered in
the name of the father of one Gulzar, an employee of Ramzan Sugar
Mills . He said Rs 5 billion were deposited in the account of Maqsood
and Co, a firm in the name of Malik Maqsood, who worked at the
Sharif-owned Chiniot Energy Office as a peon. Similarly Rs 350 million
were deposited in the account of Azhar Abbas, Rs 480 million in
account of Muhmmad Anwar, Rs 560 million in account of Ghulam Shabbir
and Rs 210 million in the account of Tanveerul Haq, all employees of
Ramzan Sugar Mills. Overall Rs 17.4 billion were deposited in paper
firms and benami accounts of the employees of Shabaz Sharif companies
whose monthly salaries were from Rs 18000 per month to Rs 70,000. He
said that all details of these employees were available with Employees
Old Age Benefit Fund (EOBI) record and nobody could deny that they were
not working with Shahbaz Sharif’s firms.
He said that as per collected documentary proofs, Rashid Karamat,
resident of a slum near Gulberg, Lahore was a procurement assistant
earning Rs 18000 per month. How were Rs 450 million transferred in his
account, he asked.
He said that two employees so Sahbaz Sahrif namely Masroor Anwar and
Shoaib Qamar transferred big amounts from Nisar Trading Company
account to Shahbaz Sharif and Hamza Shahbaz accounts and copies of the
CNICs of both of them were available with the concerned bank branches.
He said that when party members of the PML-N were questioned about
the cheques given by them deposited in Nisar Trading Company, the
accounts of Hamza and Shahbaz Sahrif they said that had given donation
for party funds. However, he questioned as to why those people donated
who either got some contracts from Punjab government or they got
political benefits.
He asked Shahbaz Sharif if these allegations were baseless, he should
drag him courts in London as he used to claim and he should give
answers to these questions in the courts and media.
Replying the questions of media persons, Shahzad Akbar said that
arrest of any accused was purview of National Accountability Bureau
(NAB). He demanded that name of Shabaz Sharif should be put in Exit
Control List (ECL) as there was chance that with hot winds blowing
here, he might go to England to celebrate Eidul Azha there.
Dispelling the impression that only opposition party leaders were
victimized, he said that in the history of accountability for the
first time the government was doing self-accountability and inquiry on
sugar and wheat shortage were its manifestation.
He said that PTI was fighting against the obsolete system and not
against Sharifs and Zardaris, who were its beneficiaries’.