LAHORE: An accountability court in Lahore on Tuesday handed over the custody of Ramzan Sugar Mills manager Muhammad Mushtaq alias Chini to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on 14-day physical remand.
NAB officials produced him in the court and sought his custody for 15 days for questioning in the cases involving Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif and his sons.
The NAB prosecutor stated before the court that the accused transacted Rs500 million into Suleman Shehbaz’s account, adding his custody was required for questioning with regard to a network involved in the money laundering scam. After the initial hearing, the judge handed the accused over to the bureau on 14-day physical remand.
Muhammad Mushtaq alias Chinia, said to be a frontman of the opposition leader in Punjab Assembly Hamza Shehbaz and his brother Suleman Shehbaz, was arrested after being offloaded from a Dubai-bound flight.
His name was placed on the exit control list (ECL) on the request of NAB. He had gone underground after the bureau started a probe into Ramzan Sugar Mills case.
According to a NAB statement, the suspect Muhammad Mushtaq deposited Rs500 million in his own account and then transferred it to the account of Suleman Shahbaz.
