Money laundering case: Sharif family's aide Mushtaq Chini records statement as approver
Yesterday, Chini had decided to become an approver in the case.
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Muhammad Mushtaq alias Chini – the alleged close aide to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders Hamza Shahbaz and Salman Shahbaz, and who has decided to become an approver in the money laundering case against the PML-N leaders – on Saturday recorded his statement before a judicial magistrate in Lahore.
Sources familiar with the matter told the media that Chini has handed over details and information of 37 transactions through two private banks to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore.
Moreover, he has informed the investigation team about transactions worth Rs500 million received by him through the two banks, and that he had transferred Rs600 million into the account of Salman Shahbaz.
Yesterday, Chini had decided to become an approver in the case.
In this regard, the NAB had sought his transit remand from an accountability court to present him to the NAB Chairman Javed Iqbal.
Judge Waseem Akhtar had approved two-day transit remand of PMLN leaders’s alleged frontman.
Millions of rupees from abroad were transferred into Mushtaq’s account. More than Rs500 millions were transferred to the PML-N leader’s account from five different accounts of Mushtaq.
The accountability watchdog has also been interrogating Hamza Shahbaz in the case.
On June 11, the NAB Lahore arrested the Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly Hamza Shahbaz in Ramzan Sugar Mills, money laundering and assets beyond means cases as the Lahore High Court (LHC) turned down his applications for extension in his interim bail.
On April 8, Chini, whose name had been put in the Exit Control List (ECL), was taken into custody by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) while attempting to flee to Dubai from Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore.
He had gone underground after National Assembly Opposition Leader Shahbaz Sharif was arrested and was being investigated by the NAB.
