LAHORE: Pakistan’s former interior minister Rehman Malik has alleged that the Sharif brothers are involved in money laundering billions of rupees and appealed to the Supreme Court to take action against them.
Malik said he would even move the International Court of Justice if necessary against the money laundering of the Sharif brothers, terming it an international crime.
Showing documentary proof of money laundering to the media yesterday, Malik, at a press conference here, stated that he would also move the Election Commission of Pakistan and present this evidence before it.
PPP members, including Munir Ahmed Khan and Omar Sharif Bokhari, were also present on the occasion.
Malik said the Sharifs had deceived their own relatives, including Ishaq Dar, his wife, his nephew Musa Ghani and a UK-based Pakistani Qazi Masood and his family for money laundering. Showing the affidavit submitted by Ishaq Dar regarding the “Benamidar Accounts” on April 25, 2000, to the media, Malik stated it was evident from it that he had done all money laundering on the instructions of Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif.
According to the statement mention in the affidavit, Ishaq Dar said “in early 1992, Mian Nawaz Sharif, who was then Prime Minister of Pakistan contacted me and requested to provide credit line of approximately Rs100m to the business concerns of his family from Mordaba (company set up by Dar).” “I enquired from him about the collateral against the credit line. He informed me that he will provide foreign currency funds as collateral,” Dar said.
It further quoted him as saying that he was sent copies of passports of Sikandara Qazi, Talat Masood Qazi, Kashif Masood Qazi (relatives of Masood Qazi, the person with whom Dar had stayed during his stay in England and later also introduced him to Nawaz Sharif).
The document quoted Ishaq Dar, a relative of Nawaz Sharif, as saying: “I had reservations in opening/operation of these ‘Benamidar Accounts’ but it was assured by Mian Nawaz Sharif that Qazi has agreed for use of their names. Furthermore after the promulgation of Protection of Economic Reforms Act 1992, his government’s all foreign current accounts had complete immunity against any enquiry, investigation by any department or agency.”
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