‘I am a majnoo,’ Pakistan PM Shehbaz Khan says in court. Here’s why
India Today
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called himself a majnoo (fool) and told a court that he had refused to take a salary when he was the chief minister of Punjab province.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif testified on Saturday in a special court hearing in the PKR 16 billion money laundering case against him that he had refused to take any salary when he was the Chief Minister of Punjab province, and termed himself a “majnoo” for doing so.
Shehbaz and his sons Hamza and Suleman were booked by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in November 2020 under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act and Anti-Money Laundering Act.
Hamza is currently the Chief Minister of Punjab province, while Suleman is absconding and residing in the UK.
Meanwhile, the court on Saturday extended the pre-arrest bail of Prime Minister Shehbaz and his son Hamza till June 4.
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The FIA investigation has said that it has detected 28 benami accounts, allegedly of the Shehbaz family, through which an amount of 14 billion Pakistani Rupees (USD 75 million) was laundered from 2008 to 2018.
The FIA examined the money trail of 17,000 credit transactions.
