An accountability courtroom in Pakistan acquitted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his members of the family on Thursday in a multi-million-dollar cash laundering case after the anti-corruption company failed to offer any stable proof towards them.
“An Accountability Courtroom acquitted Prime Minister Shehbaz, his spouse Nusrat, his son Hamza and daughter Javaria within the PKR 7 billion cash laundering case filed by the Nationwide Accountability Bureau (NAB) in 2020,” a courtroom official instructed PTI.
The official mentioned the courtroom acquitted the premier and his members of the family after the NAB failed to offer any stable proof towards the suspects relating to the laundering of thousands and thousands of {dollars} overseas, particularly to the UK.
The official additional mentioned the courtroom, nonetheless, declared one other daughter of the premier, Rabia Imran, a proclaimed offender and issued her an arrest warrant. Rabia had left for the UK since she was named within the case.
The corruption case was filed by the NAB in 2020 throughout the tenure of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) authorities. The Sharif household termed the case a political victimisation.
In October final 12 months, a particular courtroom of the Federal Investigation Company additionally acquitted Shehbaz within the PKR 16 billion cash laundering case. On July 10, his son, Suleman Shahbaz, was additionally acquitted in the identical case.
Pakistan Peoples Get together (PPP) senior chief Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan alleged that former Pakistan Military Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and the navy institution had rescued the Sharif household from conviction in corruption circumstances towards them.
“Bajwa sahib has rescued the Sharif household from conviction in circumstances and he has dedicated a giant crime,” Ahsan mentioned. He mentioned the circumstances towards Prime Minister Shehbaz, his elder brother former premier Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz Sharif had been open-and-shut and their conviction was evident however they had been rescued by the highest man.
The ousted prime minister Khan had already declared that the Sharif household is given reduction in courtroom circumstances underneath a cope with the highly effective navy institution.
Final month, the accountability courtroom acquitted former prime minister and elder brother of Pakistan premier, Nawaz Sharif, in a case of alleged unlawful allotment of plots in Punjab province in 1986.