Via Press Accept as true with of India: A distinct court docket in Pakistan on Monday acquitted High Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s son Suleman Shahbaz and all different accused named within the Rs 16 billion cash laundering case filed by means of the Federal Investigation Company (FIA).
The particular court docket right here issued its order on pleas filed by means of Suleman and others accused within the case in search of their acquittal. The high minister’s son was once provide along his recommend sooner than the court docket on the time of the announcement, Geo Information reported.
In keeping with the decision, the allegations towards him have been “with none proof”.
Suleman, who returned to Pakistan in December final yr after a four-year self-exile in London, was once now not most effective accused within the case however was once additionally named in an assets-beyond-means reference. He was once declared a proclaimed wrongdoer in each instances.
Forward of his arrival, the Islamabad Top Court docket restrained each the FIA and Nationwide Duty Bureau (NAB) from arresting him.
The FIA, this January, cited a loss of evidence and cleared him within the sugar generators case.
In the meantime, the FIA has submitted the solutions to the 27 questions associated with the case within the court docket.
Pass judgement on Bakht Fakhar Behzad inquired referring to the ones concerned within the inquiry of the cash laundering case. FIA’s attorney instructed the court docket that the inquiry was once carried out by means of a joint investigation group headed by means of a overdue FIA professional.
“Inform me in an instant, are not making up tales, I’ve learn all of it. I can ship all of the FIA other people to prison now, be mindful this. I need a solution, what evidence of crime was once there with the challan?” the pass judgement on requested.
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Suleman’s recommend, Recommend Amjad Parvez, mentioned that the case is baseless and he had spoken towards it. The court docket then requested, beneath whose drive the case was once filed.
The prosecutor mentioned that there was once no direct proof and Suleman was once declared accused within the mild of the shape used to open the account.
After the listening to, the court docket acquitted all of the accused together with Suleman within the cash laundering case.
The pass judgement on additionally directed the government to do so towards the FIA officers for launching the frivolous and baseless prosecution towards Suleman and co-accused Syed Muhammad Tahir Naqvi âæ “in order that in long run different officials will have to be informed the lesson and will have to restrain themselves of obeying the unlawful orders in their superiors.”
The FIA had registered the case towards Shehbaz Sharif and his sons Hamza and Suleman in November 2020 beneath the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Anti Cash Laundering Act.
His father and brother had already been acquitted final yr within the cash laundering case.
“Thank you be to Allah that the info got here sooner than the folks, these days by means of the grace of Allah we’ve been exonerated,” Suleman instructed journalists out of doors the court docket.
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