Adviser on Accountability and Interior Mirza Shahzad Akbar has said challan in the mega money laundering investigation against Sharif Group has been submitted in the Special Court Central, Lahore.

Addressing a news conference in Lahore today [Friday], he said the challan holds Shahbaz Sharif and Mian Hamza Shahbaz guilty as not only as principal accused but also principal beneficiaries of over sixteen billion rupees laundered money derived from improper means, corruption and gratifications.

He said the investigation team unearthed twenty-eight benami bank accounts operated from 2008 to 2018, in the names of peons and clerks of the Sharif Group in various banks of Lahore and Chiniot on the instructions of the principal accused.

Shahzad Akbar said the investigation team analyzed complete money-trail of over 17,000 credit transactions into these 28 benami bank accounts.