LAHORE: An ongoing investigation into money-laundering charges against theSharif brothers has unearthed several suspicious money transfers in theiraccounts, ARY News reported on Friday, citing sources.
Sources said that a huge amount was laundered abroad through telegraphictransfers (TTs) in the names driver, currency dealer, mobile seller, andclothes seller.
According to the revelations, $1,34000 were received by the Sharif familysent abroad through TT in the name of currency seller Mehboob, while$5,17000 were laundered through TT under name of Rameez Shahid, a residentof Dubai, sources revealed.
This was not all the money was laundered even in the names of a driver, amobile shop owner. $86,000 were received abroad through telegraphictransfers in the name of driver Abid Shah, while $53,000 were transferredin the name of mobile shop worker named Khayal Nawaz and nearly $200,000were received by the Sharif brothers abroad in the name of a cloth seller,hailing from Karachi, without bringing it into his knowledge, sources said.
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Earlier, the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) banking crime circle haddiscovered billions of rupees stashed in bank accounts of employees ofPML-N president Shehbaz Sharif’s son Salman Shehbaz.
Sources had relayed the FIA found a staggering Rs9.5 billion in bankaccounts of Salman’s employees who have been working at the Ramazan andAl-Arabia Sugar Mills. Providing a breakdown of the amount, they said,Rs2.3 billion was found in a bank account of Salman Shehbaz’s peon, namedMaqsood, who also purchased a luxury car worth more than Rs15 million.
