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.
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April 9, 2021
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.
Two separate cases registered against Tareen, son
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April 1, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency has registered two separate cases against Jahangir Khan Tareen and his son Ali Khan Tareen over the charges of allegedly committing fraud and money laundering worth Rs3.14 billion. The FIA has registered the cases against the father, son duo under the PPC sections 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating of public shareholders) and 109 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), read with sections 3/4 of the Anti-Money Laundering Act.
As per the FIR against Tareen family, the FIA stated that during the course of inquiry, a fraudulent and premeditated scheme of misappropriation of public shareholders money by Jahangir Khan Tareen has surfaced whereby JDW (a Public ltd. Listed Company-CEO Jahangir Khan Tareen) fraudulently transferred Rs3.14 billion to an associated private company, Farooqi Pulp Mills Ltd. Gujrat (FPML), owned by his son and close relatives.