The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday dismissed bail petition of Shahid Rafiq, an alleged front man of leader of the opposition in the Punjab Assembly Hamza Shehbaz, in a money laundering case. The defended counsel contended before the court that his client has been accused of making transactions of millions of rupees into the Sharif family's accounts from the United Kingdom.
The charges hurled by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) at Shahid Rafiq are fabricated and ill-founded, he claimed. The NAB prosecutor, opposing the bail petition, said the suspect was involved in transferring ill-gotten money for Sharif family. Two other facilitators of Sharif family, Shahid Qayyum and Fazal Dad were assigned the job of providing money to Rafiq who was running money Exchange Company and had to convert the money into foreign currency. The court after hearing both the sides dismissed the bail petition.