LAHORE: An accountability court in Lahore granted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shahbaz’s acquittal in a Rs7 billion money laundering case on Thursday.
The prime minister, Hamza, Nusrat Shehbaz (wife), Javeria Ali (PM’s daughter), Muhammad Usman. Masroor Anwar, Shoaib Qamar, Qasim Qayyum, Rashid Karamat, Ali Ahmed, and Nisar Ahmed, all acquitted except one.
The court issued a perpetual arrest order for PM Shehbaz’s daughter Rabia Imran, branded an absconder.
The defendants filed petitions for acquittal based on NAB’s lack of proof.
NAB investigators confirmed no evidence.
The court announced earlier this month that it had no choice but to acquit the accused. As NAB had indicated it had nothing against them.
The anti-graft body filed the referral for the inquiry underway since 2018 in August 2020, when PM Shehbaz was the opposition leader in the National Assembly.
Moreover, After the Lahore High Court denied bail on September 29, NAB arrested him.
While, After a month, an accountability court indicted the prime minister, Hamza, and others on November 11, 2020.
In April 2021, the prime minister was granted bail.
