LAHORE: The Accountability Court (AC) on Wednesday handed over Aftab Mehmood, a frontman of Shehbaz Sharif family to National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on physical remand till May 8 in a money laundering case.
As per details, alleged frontman of Shahbaz Sharif’s family, Aftab Mahmood was produced before the Accountability Court Judge Syed Jawadul Hassan by the bureau officials.
During the hearing, the officials submitted that the accused laundered millions of rupees for Shehbaz Sharif family members. They requested the court for handing over the accused on physical remand for investigations.
At this, the court, handing over the accused to NAB custody on physical remand till May 8, directed for producing him on expiry of the remand term.
NAB had claimed that the suspect operated a foreign exchange, Usman International in London and Birmingham, and he laundered millions of rupees for Hamza, Salman and other members of the Shahbaz family.
The NAB further said that suspect Mahmood was the cousin of another arrested suspect Shahid Shafiq and both allegedly transferred millions of rupees to the accounts of the Shahbaz family members.
