Money changer who facilitated TTs for Sharif family 'under NAB custody'
- By Web Desk -
- Sep 29, 2021
ISLAMABAD: A money changer who used to send TTs in the name of the Sharif family from abroad is under the custody of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), ARY NEWS reported quoting sources within the accountability watchdog.
While denying reports that NAB is investigating cases against Shehbaz Sharif and Suleiman Shehbaz over their London accounts, the sources said that they were rather investigating over Rs 200 billion transferred through TTs to the Sharif family members.
The money changer who facilitated the TTs for the Sharif family is under arrest, they said.
An approver in the TT case, Aftab Mahmood’s statement was also run during ARY NEWS programme, Power Play, that quoted him as saying that he was operating a money exchange in Britain from 2004 when his cousin Shahid Rafique asked him to facilitate some TTs in 2008.
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The TTs were sent to the accounts of Sharif family members including Hamza Shehbaz, Suleiman Shehbaz, and others, and the names of the account beneficiaries, he said.
He further said that in 2008-09, he sent 24 fake TTs amounting to US$2.4 million. “I neither know the ones who were sent TTs nor they handed over the money to me,” he said adding that Shahid Rafiq received the cash.