ISLAMABAD: It's not just Jehangir Tareen. There are many more…
At least 14 sugar mills have so far been issued a ‘final notice’ by the FIA Lahore alone besides there being a large number of FIRs registered against various different actors of what is now known as the ‘sugar mafia’.
Although Tareen is said to be the major player in the sugar business, Shahbaz Sharif’s family is on top of the FIA's hit-list on which only Tareen until recently prominently featured on.
In its FIR, the FIA has accused Shahbaz Sharif and his sons of having hidden and laundered Rs. 25 billion from 2008 to 2018 mostly from ‘extraneous sources’ through fake accounts opened and operated in the name of low-wage employees (peons & clerks) of his sugar mill.