LAHORE: An accountability court Tuesday granted 14-day physical remand of Mushtaq alias ‘Chini’ said to be a frontman of Opposition Leader in the Punjab Assembly Hamza Shahbaz and his brother Salman Shahbaz.The NAB officials produced the accused before the court and implored the court to grant his physical remand for carrying out investigation. The court accepted NAB’s plea and granted 14-day physical remand of the accused.The accused Mushtaq alias Chini was arrested by the FIA from Lahore airport and was handed over to National Accountability Bureau. The name of accused was placed on the ECL on the request of NAB. The accused had gone underground after the NAB started arrests in Ramzan Sugar Mills case. As per NAB, the suspect Muhammad Mushtaq through illegal transactions had deposited Rs500 million into his own account and then transferred the money to the account of Salman Shahbaz.Earlier in February, the NAB had filed reference in Ramzan Sugar Mills case against Shahbaz Sharif and Hamza Shahbaz. In the reference, Shahbaz and Hamza are nominated as prime suspects by the NAB. The NAB has blamed Hamza for his alleged role being the chief executive of the Ramzan Sugar Mills to get constructed a drain facilitating his mill out of the public money in Chiniot. The then chief minister Shahbaz Sharif allegedly approved an amount of Rs210 million for construction of the drain.
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