LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency arrested on Sunday two senior officials of a leading private bank on charges of influencing witnesses in the money laundering case against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president Shehbaz Sharif and members of his family.
The agency said they both were coercing prosecution witnesses, including bank officials, into changing their statements.
Sharif and his son, Hamza Shehbaz, are facing charges of laundering dirty money worth Rs25 billion using the accounts of Ramazan and Al-Arabiya sugar mills.
The duo is presently out on bail. An investigation into the money laundering charges against the suspects revealed that his assets ballooned from Rs14.86mn to Rs7328mn in the past 20 years.
Sharif made properties worth Rs619.85 million which include three homes in Model Town, Defence Housing Authority and Dunga Gali in Galyat region.
The assets declared by the family in 2018 had swelled to Rs584 million.
