LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: Six officers of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Punjab investigating sugar scams against Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif and estranged PTI leader Jahangir Tareen have been transferred and posted in Sindh province.
A total of nine FIA officers have been transferred from Punjab to Sindh.
According to notification, the FIA officials who were transferred today are Raja Muhammad, Rana Faisal Munir, Zawar Ahmed, Sheeraz Ahmed, Nadeem Ahmed, and Sibgatullah. All these FIA officials were probing the sugar scandal against the PML(N) leader and Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif, Jehangir Tareen, an estranged PTI leader and others.
In the sugar scandal, the PML-N president and his son Hamza Shehbaz have been accused of laundering Rs25 billion, using the Ramazan Sugar Mills and Al-Arabiya Sugar Mills. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has submitted a charge sheet against Shehbaz Sharif, Hamza and 19 others in the money laundering case.
The FIA has also registered two separate cases against Tareen and his son Ali Tareen for committing fraud and money laundering involving Rs3.14 billion.
The cases against them were registered under PPC Sections 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating of public shareholders) and 109 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), read with Sections 3/4 of the Anti-Money Laundering Act.
Meanwhile, Director FIA Lahore Dr Rizwan has sent a letter to the head-office, seeking cancellation of all these transfers of the FIA officials, ARY reported today.
Director FIA says the officials of the agency can be posted in another province only after serving for 10 years in one place.
