LONDON – In its latest report on the properties owned by the ‘super rich’family of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, a UK paper on Sunday revealedthat the assets Sharif family owned in London were estimated at least £32million.
One of the most priced properties of them is Avenfield flats, now worth atleast £7 million, Daily Mail reportedlink>.
The flats are at the centre of corruption charges the Sharif family isfacing in Pakistan, where the former prime minister has lived when inLondon since 1993, knocking four luxury flats together to make a singlemansion.£7million: Avenfield House is located in Park Lane, London, and has a viewof Hyde Park
According to the paper, the family are also accused of using dirty money tobuy at least 21 UK properties on top of the Avenfield flats, most atequally grand Central London locations, in Mayfair, Chelsea and Belgravia.
“The total value of the properties is estimated at least £32 million,” itadded.Family home: Inside plush Avenfield House in Mayfair, created after fourluxury flats were knocked together
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday tweeted the link toa report in Daily Mail titled “Penthouse pirates: How the mega-rich formerprime minister of Pakistan and his sons have ploughed millions intoLondon’s swankiest addresses to amass a vast property empire.”
“More on how the Pakistani nation’s wealth was looted through moneylaundering by corrupt rulers and their families,” Imran wrote.
The Daily Mail report refers to the Avenfield properties — on which one ofthe references filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) againstthe Sharif family is based.
The report stated: “The family has made huge profits from other sites whichhave not figured in court – such as the swankiest address of all, at OneHyde Park Place, which Nawaz Sharif’s son Hassan sold for £43 million.Untangling the web of the Sharifs’ British real estate portfolio is noteasy. The properties are registered via a bewildering network of companies,trusts and bank accounts.”
It also shared details of Sharif family properties in London.