Web Desk (LTN NEWS): Wednesday, PM Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shehbaz filed pleas for acquittal in a money-laundering case involving Rs16 billion. The two were supposed to be charged on Wednesday, but that didn’t happen because PM didn’t show up in court. But Hamza showed up in court and signed that he was there.
As the hearing started, Shehbaz’s lawyer asked for a one-time exemption from his client’s presence in court because he was busy helping flood victims.
The judge asked the lawyer, “Why can’t Shehbaz come to court for 10 minutes? This case will be heard again in a month. It doesn’t happen every single day.” The judge said that it wasn’t hard to find 10 minutes for the hearing. But he made an exception for PM.
PM Shehbaz and Hamza’s lawyers also asked the court to let them go free, saying that the case against their clients was based on politics and that they couldn’t be found guilty.
The court asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to tell them what they thought about this by September 20. The lawyer also told the judge that his client’s bank accounts had been frozen because of a court order. He asked the court to let the money out of the accounts.
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FIA prosecutor said that FIA had no problem with the accounts being unfrozen. In its challan, FIA said that two people had not shown how Rs16 billion was spent, so it named them the main suspects.
According to challan, FIA declared Suleman Shehbaz and two other accused people, Malik Maqsood Ahmad and Syed Tahir Naqvi, to be criminals in this case.
Under sections 419, 420, 468, 471, 34, and 109 of the Prevention of Corruption Act and R/W 3/4 of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, the FIA has booked Shehbaz, Hamza, and Suleman for November 2020.
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