LAHORE: A team of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrived at Kot Lakhpat Jail on Friday to interrogate Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif in Rs25 billion money laundering case.

The team quizzed Shehbaz Sharif, who is also Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, about his alleged role in the money laundering. A day earlier, it interrogated his son Hamza Shahbaz in the case.

The FIA had registered the alleged money laundering case of Rs25 billion against him and his two sons, Hamza and Suleman under the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2010.

The Federal Investigation Agency has been allowed to investigate PML-N leader Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shehbaz, who are currently at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail.

The agency was granted permission in a letter sent by the inspector-general of Punjab Prisons. The leaders will be questioned by a four-member committee of the anti-corruption wing in a money laundering case.

“The investigation officers of the FIA want to interrogate/record the statements of accused Hamza Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday and accused Shahbaz Sharif on Friday, respectively in Kot Lakhpat Jail, Lahore,” read a letter written to Deputy Inspector General Prisons, Lahore. NNI