Staff Reporter
Lahore
Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Accountability and Interior Mirza Shahzad Akbar, on Thursday disclosed that Rs 15 billion had been deposited in fake accounts of 12 lower grade employees of the Sharif Group from 2008 to 2018, and Rs 7b were deposited in six fake companies’ accounts. Addressing a press conference at 90 Shahra-e-Quaid-i-Azam here, he said that during these years, a high turnover of Rs 15b was found in the bank accounts of 12 low salaried workers of Ramzan and Al-Arabia sugar mills.
The details of these account-holders and deposited money is as under:- During 2016-17, in a bank account of Malik Maqsood, a tea boy/peon of the Sharif Group Managing Director Suleman Shahbaz, Rs 3.7 billion had been deposited and the person escaped to the UAE in 2018 when the NAB started investigation against Suleman Shahbaz.
