Switch of FIA officers probing circumstances of Shahbaz Sharif and Jahangir Tareen has been annulled

In response to sources, the FIA ​​director has issued a notification cancelling the switch of officers.

The officers whose transfers have been cancelled embody assistant administrators Ali Mardan Shah, Arshad Butt, Zawar Ahmed, Shiraz Umar and Rana Faisal Munir.

It might be recalled that the officers in command of the investigations into the circumstances of Shehbaz Sharif and Jahangir Tareen have been just lately transferred.

Earlier, advisor to the Prime Minister on Accountability and Inside Barrister Shahzad Akbar mentioned that PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif is the “ring chief of a money-laundering gang”.

Shahbaz and his son, Hamza Shahbaz, are concerned in corruption and laundering Rs16 billion within the Ramzan Sugar Mills case, he had mentioned whereas addressing a press convention in December final 12 months.

The challan submitted by the Federal Investigation Company (FIA) towards the 2 members of the Sharif household — Shahbaz and Hamza — within the Ramzan Sugar Mills money-laundering case consisted of greater than 4,000 paperwork and 100 witnesses, he mentioned.

The Nationwide Accountability Bureau (NAB) additionally discovered Shahbaz concerned in money-laundering, and in response to the FIA charge-sheet, he was the “mastermind of the money-laundering group”, Akbar mentioned.

The PTI chief Jahangir Tareen and his son have been charged with alleged fraud and cash laundering, Geo Information had reported in March 2021.

A Federal Investigation Company (FIA) Lahore investigation workforce registered a case of alleged fraud of Rs3.14 billion on March 22 towards them.