Times of Islamabad

Shahbaz Sharif and sons involved in Rs 25 billion money laundering case

Shahbaz Sharif and sons involved in Rs 25 billion money laundering case

LAHORE: A team of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrived at KotLakhpat Jail on Friday to interrogate PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif inRs25 billion money laundering case.

The team quizzed Mr Sharif, who is also Leader of the Opposition in theNational Assembly, about his alleged role in the money laundering. A dayearlier, it interrogated his son Hamza Shahbaz in the case.

The FIA had registered the alleged money laundering case of Rs25 billionagainst him and his two sons, Hamza and Suleman under the Anti-MoneyLaundering Act, 2010.

Earlier, the agency had written a letter to the Punjab prison departmentseeking permission to record statements of the father-son duo in KotLakhpat Jail.