Saudi law-enforcement agencies have reportedly arrested five employees of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's steel shredding plant on charges relating to a stolen car racket. Saudi intelligence agents raided Yard No 69 in the Bariman area of Jeddah, used by the Hill Metal Establishment, on June 7 and found a store of damaged cars. The management of the shredding plant was allegedly buying stolen cars, stripping them of spare parts to sell and then sending the bodies to the shredder. Five employees of the shredding plant - Nasir Beg, Mian Ashraf and Arshad Butt (purchasers of the cars), Khurshid (guard) and Fayyaz (driver/winch operator) were arrested during the raid. |