Adviser to Prime Minister on Accountability and Interior Mirza Shahzad Akbar Thursday said that Rs 15 billion had been deposited in fake accounts of 12 lower grade employees of the
Sharif Group from 2008 to 2018, and Rs 7 billion were deposited in six fake companies’ accounts.
Addressing a press conference, he said that during these years, a high turnover of Rs 15 billion was found in the bank accounts of 12 low salaried workers of Ramzan and Al-Arabia sugar mills.
During 2016-17, in a bank account of Malik Maqsood, a tea boy/peon of the Sharif Group Managing Director Suleman Shahbaz, Rs 3.7 billion had been deposited and the person escaped to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2018 when the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) started investigation against Suleman Shahbaz. From 2014 to 2017, Rs 2.3 billion had been deposited in the bank account of Muhammad Aslam, a peon of the Ramzan Sugar Mills; from 2011 to 2014, Rs 1.67 billion was deposited in the bank account of Azhar Abbas, a clerk of Ramzan Sugar Mills; from 2012 to 2014, Rs 1.57 billion were deposited in the account of Ghulam Shabbar, another clerk of Ramzan Sugar Mill; from 2010 to 2014, Rs 1.42 billion was deposited in the account of yet another clerk, Khizar Hayat Nazar of Ramzan Sugar Mills; from 2012 to 2015, Rs 1.18 billion were deposited in the account of Iqrar Hussain, a clerk of Ramzan Sugar Mills; from 2011 to 2015, Rs 880 million deposited in the account of Muhammad Anwar, another clerk of Ramzan Sugar Mills, Rs 562 million were deposited in the bank account of Tauqeeruddin, manager of sales of Ramzan and Al-Arabia sugar mills, from 2012-13, Rs 512 million were deposited in the account of Tanveer-ul-Haq, a Sharif Group data entry operator; Rs 461 million were deposited in the account of Kashif Majeed, accounts clerk of Ramzan Sugar mills, from 2012 to 2017, Rs 425 million were deposited in the account of the late Gulzar Ahmad Khan, a peon of Ramzan Sugar Mills.
