Bureau Report
LAHORE: An investigation into assets beyond means case against PML-N leader Khawaja Asif has revealed that he owns “benami” shares in a firm.
Agencies added that the former foreign minister, who is under the NAB custody on a 14-day physical remand, had got the firm registered in the name of his employee Tariq Mir, who owns 50 per cent shares in it while the remainder are owned by Musrat Khawaja. They said millions of rupees worth of transactions were made into Tariq’s bank account over nine years. A cumulative sum of Rs507 million was deposited into the firm’s account between 2009 and 2018, the reports said, adding the company is involved in the rice export business.
