FIA seeks arrest of PM Shahbaz and CM Hamza Shahbaz in Rs 16 billion money laundering case
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What could be termed an unexpected development in the against Prime Minister and Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shehbaz, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday sought a court order for their in the case.
Prosecutor Farooq Bajwa told the FIA’sthat the Agency wanted to take both father and son into custody for questioning in order to determine the extent of their roles in the scam.
He, on the occasion, also presented in the court an updated report on the challan against 16 suspects in the case.
Giving his arguments on the bail petition filed by , his counsel Amjad Pervez Advocate said that the had been dragging on the case for one-and-a-half year against his client, but without any success. “Both Shehbaz and were twice interrogated in judicial lockup, which was a bad intent on the part of the Agency officials,” he said, and added that despite the fact that statements of employees of his clients were recorded during the PTI government, the failed to get anything out of that.
“They even tried to get fake testimony in support of their allegations against father and son, but they got none,” he claimed.
Amjad Advocate said that it was alleged that Shehbaz had laundered the money through Mushtaq Cheeni. “But the latter was not nominated in the case. Even his confessional statement was not attached with the challan,” he regretted.
Truth of the matter was, he went on to add, that his both clients were subjected to political victimization. “All this was done as a part of political engineering,” he alleged.
However, Special Judge Central Ijaz Hassan Awan allowed both the prime minister and the chief minister to leave the court.
Later, talking to the media outside the court, spokesman for the Punjab government Ataullah Tarar said that the nation’s both time and money were wasted on politically motivated cases.
