Lahore: The statement of Shahid Rafique, who became a pardoned witness in Sharif family money laundering, has come to light.
According to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Shahid Rafique recorded his confessional statement to the Chairman NAB and the Judicial Magistrate. Shahid Rafique confessed to laundering 24 2,430,145 for the Sharif family.
Shahid Rafique said that in 2008 Qasim Qayyum Sharif used to arrange remittances for the family from abroad and also transferred money to the accounts of Nusrat Shahbaz, Hamza Shahbaz, Salman Shahbaz and Rabia Imran.
According to the statement, from 2008 to 2009, he arranged 24 TTs for the Sharif family and received a commission on the money sent to the Sharif family. I admit that I made 24 transactions for the Sharif family which fall into the category of money laundering.
Shahid Rafique admitted that the TTs sent from abroad were in the name of Qasim Qayyum's employees while the TTs were issued from MS Usman International Money Exchange.
"I started a money exchange business in 2004 and I had an exchange and a Triple A franchise to Messrs. Tsar from which money was transferred," said Shahid Rafique.
According to the statement, Aftab Mahmood is my cousin and I used to put up TTs with him while I used to do transactions with Aftab Mahmood using fake names.
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