An anti-corruption court in Lahore on Thursday acquitted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shahbaz in the Ramzan Sugar Mills case.
Anti-Corruption Court Judge Sardar Iqbal Dogar announced the verdict, which was reserved on Monday.
The said case pertains to allegations accusing PM Shehbaz, then-Punjab chief minister, of misuse of authority by utilising public funds for the construction of a sludge carrier to facilitate the Ramzan Sugar Mills, owned by his sons.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), in its reference filed on February 18, 2019 had accused PM Shehbaz of getting a 10-kilometre sludge carrier constructed in district Chiniot.Play Video
The anti-corruption bureau had alleged that the “project” had inflicted a loss of Rs213 million to the national exchequer.
The reference was reopened in November 2023 after the amendments — introduced by the coalition government of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) — were struck down.
The premier, along with his son Hamza were indicted in the said case in 2019 and had then applied for transfer of the reference in September 2024 following the Supreme Court’s decision to restore amendments to the National Accountability Ordinance 1999.
