Can the Hudaibya Paper Mills case be reopened today?
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Saturday May 22, 2021
The government has decided to re-open the Hudaibya Paper Mills case, which first came to light over a decade ago, when the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed a reference on the basis of a confessional statement by Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Ishaq Dar on April 25, 2000. Dar, who at the time was in custody, admitted to laundering money to the tune of $14.86 million on behalf of the Sharif family through fictitious accounts. In return for his statement, Dar was pardoned by the then chairman NAB.
In 2014, Lahore High Court referee judge Justice Sardar Shamim quashed the reference on the grounds that if a re-investigation was allowed against the Sharif family, it would provide an opportunity to the investigators to pad up lacunas. Also in court, the PML-N had continued to claim that Dar s statement was taken under duress as he was in custody.
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May 12, 2021
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain Tuesday said Hudaibiya Paper Mills case was a story of fraud of about Rs 1,242 million, in terms of volume bigger than the Panama Papers case.
In a tweet, Fawad said the case started in the year 2000 when National Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed the reference. He said Nawaz Sharif’s two sons Hassan and Hussain Nawaz, Shahbaz Sharif and his political heir Hamza Shehbaz were its main characters. He revealed that Ishaq Dar opened fake Benami foreign currency accounts to support the Sharif family in this fraud. When he was caught, Dar became an approver and also recorded his detailed statement to the authorities concerned, he said, adding that later Dar deviated from his statement by saying that the statement was taken under coercion.
Hudaibiya mills case bigger than Panama scandal, says Fawad
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ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday said the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case was a story of “fraud” of about Rs1.2 billion, which he claimed was “bigger than the Panama Papers case”.
Chaudhry, in a series of tweets, shed light on the case a day after he announced the government had ordered the investigation into the case be reopened.
The minister tweeted that the case began in the year 2000 when the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed the reference. Fawad alleged former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s sons, Hasan and Hussain, Shahbaz Sharif and his political heir Hamza Shahbaz “were also its main characters”.
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May 12, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain has said a decision to reinvestigate the Hudaibyia Paper Mills case was made in the light of emergence of new evidence.
He said the judge who had decided to close the case in 2014, also owned assets abroad, according to the Panama disclosures.
The minister said Hudaibyia was a story of fraud of about Rs1,242 million, which was bigger than the Panama papers case in terms of volume, and it started in 2000.
The minister took to his official Twitter account to explain how did he see the case and how it went through various phases. He writes, “What is the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case and how did it get started?
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