July 24, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Government ministers have called for Britain to place anti-graft curbs on former prime minister Nawaz Sharif after the United Kingdom placed sanctions on five individuals around the world, including the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president, as part of its global anti-corruption regime.
The UK said it had frozen the assets of and put travel bans on the five, who are accused of siphoning off public funds in Equatorial Guinea, Zimbabwe, Venezuela and Iraq.
“The action we have taken today targets individuals who have lined their own pockets at the expense of their citizens,” Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a statement. “Corruption drains the wealth of poorer nations, keeps their people trapped in poverty and poisons the well of democracy,” Raab added.