Ex-CM’s wife involved in money laundering: NAB

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has claimed in its reply submitted before Lahore High Court (LHC) in response to a plea filed by former chief minister Shehbaz Sharif’s wife Nusrat Shehbaz that she had a vital role in a money laundering case faced by the family.

The anti-graft watchdog also claimed that the petitioner had properties valuing millions of rupees. The bureau submitted its reply before LHC’s division bench headed by Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar.

The petitioner had challenged the trial court’s orders dismissing her application seeking exemption from personal appearance and contested her arrest warrants and the procedure initiated to declare her a proclaimed offender.

The bureau told the bench that court had issued the orders in accordance with the law, adding that the petitioner had not been appearing for hearings for a long time, as a result of which her arrest warrants were issued and the proceedings to declare her proclaimed offender (PO) were initiated.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 7^th, 2021.