LAHORE: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has arrested Hamza Shahbaz, Pakistan Television reported on Tuesday.
Opposition Leader in the Punjab Assembly Hamza Shehbaz’s interim bail was rejected by the Lahore High Court in the Ramzan Sugar Mills case and assets beyond means sources of income cases.
Speaking to a private source before his interim bail was rejected, Hamza said, “I told the Pakistani nation that I have not done any corruption. I have challenged NAB that if they can prove even a penny worth of corruption against me, I will leave politics.”
The two-member bench comprising Justice Mazhar Ali Akbar Naqvi and Justice Shahid Waheed Khan heard petitions of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader as he appears before the LHC following the expiration of his interim bail expired today.
This comes a day after former president Asif Ali Zardari was arrested in Islamabad after the high court cancelled his bail in a money laundering case.
During the hearing, a NAB lawyer said that Shahbaz’s assets have increased disproportionately over the years.
Hamza, along with his father Opposition Leader in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif were indicted in the Ramzan Sugar Mills case on April 9.
