LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday turned down a petition by Shahid Rafiq, an alleged frontman of Leader of the Opposition in Punjab Assembly Hamza Shehbaz in a money laundering case. The accusations hurled by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) at Shahid Rafiq are fabricated and ill-founded, he claimed, pleading with the judges to order his client’s release on bail. However, the NAB prosecutor, opposing the bail request, said the suspect was involved in transferring ill-gotten money into the Sharif family’s accounts. It is noteworthy that suspect Mushtaq Chene, another frontman of Hamza has turned an approver in the money laundering case. He pleaded with the magistrate to record confessional statement of the suspect under Section 164 of Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).

Source: Pakistan Today July 17, 2019 13:07 UTC