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Shahbaz, 67, is the younger brother of the deposed prime minister, Nawaz Sharif.
Shabbaz Sharif appeared in front of a National Accountability Office team in Lahore on Friday and was arrested after failing to convince the investigator of his alleged role in awarding contracts to his favorite company violation of the rules of the housing project Ashiana and Punjab Saaf Pani Company, "NAB spokesman Nawazish Ali Asim told PTI.
Shahbaz will be brought before a court on remand Saturday, he said.
Shahbaz was allegedly involved in the corruption of the Ashiana Housing project of 14 billion rupees and scams of 4 billion rupees from the Punjab Saaf Pani Company.
The former Shahbaz government, created in Punjab province, has created this Saaf Pani company to design, plan, design, execute and manage projects aimed at providing safe drinking water, in terms of health and safety. Access and quality to communities living in rural areas of the province.
Shahbaz's son-in-law, Ali Imran Yousuf, is also facing an investigation for corruption in this case. He escaped to the UK and NAB wrote to the Interior Ministry to bring him back from abroad through Interpol.
Shahbaz's son, Hamza, was also questioned by NAB for having repeatedly chaired the company's board meetings to give instructions for awarding contracts to preferred companies.
Shahbaz's blue-eyed agent, Ahad Cheea, and Sharif's chief secretary, Fawad, Hasan Fawad, are already in NAB's custody as part of the Ashna Housing Project's scam.
Amjad Ppervaiz, the Sharif family's lawyer, told the press that Shahbaz was a leader of the opposition in the National Assembly and that he could not be arrested without the opposition. authorization of the president.
The PML-N condemned the arrest of Shahbaz and described it as "political victimization".
"We strongly condemn the arrest of the party president by the NAB, which seems to be a political victimization that should be stopped," said PML-N spokeswoman Marriyum Auranzeb.
In July, Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and Capt (ret) Muhammad Safdar were sentenced to 11 years, eight years and one year respectively of jail time in the Avenfield Properties case, related to the purchase of four luxury apartments in London due to corrupt practices. .
But the Islamabad High Court released the trio on bail last month and suspended his sentence after challenging the verdict of Avenfield.
However, Sharif, 68, faces two other corruption cases filed by the NAB on the orders of the Supreme Court following the Panama Papers scandal.
The Panama Papers affair deals with alleged money laundering committed by Sharif in the 1990s, when he was twice prime minister of Pakistan to buy assets in London.
