*LAHORE: The accountability court on Saturday granted permission to PrimeMinister Shehbaz Sharif and Chief Minister Punjab Hamza Shahbaz to leaveafter they appeared before it in the Ashiana Housing scandal and Ramzansugar mills cases. *
The father-son duo who are serving as prime minister and chief ministerrespectively reached the accountability court and were later allowed toleave after marking their attendance.
The court also adjourned the proceedings for June 04.
Previously, Shehbaz Sharif and Hamza Shahbaz have filed applications in anaccountability court seeking their acquittal in the Ramzan Sugar Mills case.
Shehbaz filed the plea through his lawyer stating that he saved billions ofrupees of the public in government schemes. He said he was neither ashareholder nor the director of the sugar mill as he had alreadytransferred his properties to his children.
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The National Accountability Bureau (NAB)link has failed to provecorruption charges against him, he claimed, requesting the court to acquithim in the case.
In December, Hamza Shahbaz moved an acquittal plea in the Ramzan SugarMills reference. He filed the acquittal plea on the basis of the recentamendments made to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) law.
He stated that the corruption watchdog filed the reference against him forallegedly getting a drain built with the public funds to facilitate theRamzan Sugar Mills.
