Shehbaz challenges FIA’s probe in Lahore High Court
Opposition Leader in National Assembly and President Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Shehbaz Sharif has challenged Federal Investigation Agency’s probe against him into allegations of money laundering in the Lahore High Court through a writ petition.
In the petition filed through advocate Amjad Pervez, the PML-N president has sought cancellation of FIR and subsequent investigation against him and his son Hamza Shehbaz.
Terming the FIA probe malicious, the counsel said the FIA investigation had so far not revealed any anonymous account of Shehbaz Sharif.
He further said that a money laundering case was already pending against his client in the accountability court and under the law of Double Jeopardy, two cases could not be made on the same charge.
It is not stated in the FIA challan submitted in the trial court that the telegraph transfer caused damage to the national exchequer and no one is accused of cheating in the FIR.
The FIA maliciously had postponed the inquiry for 16 months and it has been reinitiated at the behest of the government, the petition said.
