ISLAMABAD: Opposition Leader in the National Assembly and PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif on Friday filed a plea in an accountability court seeking acquittal in the Ramzan Sugar Mills case.
The plea filed through the lawyer stated that he (Shehbaz Sharif) saved billions of rupees of the public in government schemes. “He is neither a shareholder nor the director of the sugar mill as he has already transferred his properties to his children,” it added.
The opposition leader argued that the NAB had failed to prove corruption charges against him so he was requesting the court to acquit him in the case.
In December last year, Punjab Assembly opposition leader Hamza Shahbaz moved an acquittal plea in the Ramazan Sugar Mills reference. He filed the acquittal plea on the basis of the recent amendments made to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) law.
He stated that the corruption watchdog filed the reference against him for allegedly getting a drain built with the public funds to facilitate the Ramzan Sugar Mills.
The NAB reference is ill-founded and based on mala fide intentions and political grounds, the PML-N leader alleged, adding the bureau instituted the reference at the instigation of the incumbent government.
