Shahbaz Sharif decides to file law suit against Daily Mail
He declared the Daily Mail's story as fabricated and misleading.
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Former Punjab CM and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday while declaring the story fabricated and misleading decided to file a law suit against Daily Mail.
Leader of the opposition in National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif took to the twitter and said that the fabricated and misleading story was published at the behest of Prime Minister Imran Khan and Shahzad Akbar, adding that we will also launch legal proceedings against them.
He went on to say that, “Between Imran Khan has yet to respond to three such cases I filed against him for defamation.”
Presiously, Earlier, Daily Mail had exposed an alleged money laundering scandal of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president and the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly (NA) Shehbaz Sharif from the UK government aid for earthquake victims in Pakistan.
According to a confidential investigation report seen by Daily Mail, millions of pounds were transferred into the bank accounts of Shehbaz’s family members, including his wife, children and a son-in-law.
It reported stated to have interviewed key witnesses held on remand in jail, including a UK citizen Aftab Mehmood. Mehmood claimed that he had laundered millions on behalf of Shahbaz’s family from a nondescript office in Birmingham – without attracting suspicion from Britain’s financial regulators, who inspected his books regularly.
According to Daily Mail, investigators are convinced that some of the allegedly stolen money came from Department for International Development (DFID)-funded aid projects. For rehabilitating and rebuild lives of the poor, the DFID gave £54 million from UK taxpayers; and the legal documents allege that Shahbaz’s son-in-law received about £1 million from that fund.
Moreover, investigators had launched inquiries into alleged thefts from DFID-funded schemes to give poor women cash to lift them out of poverty and to provide healthcare for rural families, according to the publication.
Allegedly, stolen millions were laundered in Birmingham and then allegedly transferred to Shahbaz’s family’s accounts by UK branches of banks including Barclays and HSBC. Furthermore, it stated that self-confessed Birmingham money-launderer Aftab Mehmood told the MoS that he had his accounts audited every three months by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs – who failed to notice anything was amiss.
