Maryam Nawaz Sharif detained by NAB

Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) leader Maryam Nawaz Sharif has been detained by the National Accountability Bureau in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case.

According to reports, Maryam Nawaz Sharif was detained prior to meeting her father former prime minister Nawaz Sharif at the Kot Lakhpat Jail.

Maryam Nawaz Sharif had been summoned to NAB office at 3pm today for questioning in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case. 

Yousaf Abbas, a cousin of Maryam Nawaz Sharif has also been detained by NAB.

The arrest of the PML-N leader was mentioned by Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari during the National Assembly session. “In this Naya Pakistan who have arrested Maryam Nawaz without any conviction.”

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Accountability Shahzad Akbar on Wednesday said the Sharif Family had used Chaudhry Sugar Mills for money-laundering and illegal transfer of its shares.

Addressing a press conference here, Shahzad Akbar said in the year 2008, the mill’s shares were transferred to Maryam Nawaz, who later transferred some seven million of them to Yousaf Abbas in 2010.

-Reported by Geo News.