The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday passed a fresh inquiry against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President and Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly, Shahbaz Sharif. The anti-graft body accused Shahbaz Sharif of transferring and allotting land to favorites during his work as chief minister of Punjab province, a source reported. The inquiry was approved during a meeting chaired by Chairman NAB Justice Javed Iqbal NAB chief said that bringing mega corruption cases, especially those involving relating to sugar, money laundering, fake accounts, abuse of authority, assets beyond known sources of income, illegal housing societies and Mudarabah to their logical conclusion was the bureau's priority, a source reported.
Earlier, a Pakistan court on Monday extended the bail given to opposition leaders Shehbaz Sharif and Hamza Shehbaz in the sugar scam case. Shehbaz and his son, Hamza, are facing Rs 25 billion money scam charges in the sugar scandal. The Federal Investigation Agency had booked them in the case under sections of the Pakistan Penal Code, the Prevention of Corruption Act, and the Anti-Money Laundering Act in November 2020.
Meanwhile, NAB has been mired in a dispute over violation of human rights, character assassination, and arresting people at the inquiry stage. As per the opposition parties of Pakistan, the federal government has been using the anti-corruption body to pressurize them in order to weaken their movement against the corrupt government of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
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