- FBR officials have placed in sugar factory premises.
- The prices of sugar go from RS185 to Rs165 after the action.
- PM closely monitoring the repression of the sugar sector.
Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif authorized the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and the Intelligence Office (IB) on Sunday to take strict measures against stakeholders in the sugar sector accused of having amassed Rs140 billion unjustified profits in a short time, The news reported.
As part of a two -steal strategy, the government has deployed FBR and intelligence officials in the premises of Sugar Mills to monitor operations and limit illicit activities. The authorities have also collected critical financial data to expose long -standing irregularities and professional faults within the industry.
During the three months of the crushing season, the government was able to identify the sweets involved in professional faults in addition to the identification of hobby, members of the Setta sugar mafia (bets) and various owners of factories involved in the manipulation of sugar production, stocks and its price.
As part of a well -designed strategy, as the first step based on available data concerning purchases, the lifting of sugar, the available balance of special dealerships with the mills as well as the payments made by their bank accounting personally or the false accounts maintained in the name of the servants, the government has a clear visibility of false buyers and transferred amounts.
This has sufficiently allowed the Government to initiate criminal procedures under anti-whitewashing laws, anti-sleeping laws, tax escapes and anti-election laws being a recognizable offense.
The operations not discouraged across the country against most of the political sugar lobbies politically connected sent a strong message to sugar talents and the “Satta mafia” in which the government has no mood to save any person independently of political affiliation and powerful status. Shehbaz himself monitors the action against the sugar sector.
In the second phase of the strategy, if the market forces remain insensitive, on the basis of the undeniable evidence available, the Government is considering a repression against the thousands directly involved in professional faults and the facilitation of harms by hiding actions in their factories and receiving payments by Fake and Benami Bank accounts.
As a result of the first strategy phase, an immediate decrease in sugar prices was observed. It is relevant to mention that on March 13, that is to say before repression, the price of sugar at Lahore and the adjacent areas was approximately RS175-185 / kg; However, the price fell to RS165 / kg by March 16.
Earlier, an inflationary tendency in sugar prices was observed. We can add that at the start of the crushing season, on November 22, 2025, the price of the national average sugar was RS137 / kg which increased to RS173 / kg on March 14.
In the main urban centers like Lahore, Karachi, Faisalabad, Peshawar and Quetta, the prices of sugar had reached / approximately RS180-185.
The Mafia Satta speculated that the price of sugar would go to RS200 in the coming months and reach RS220 at the end of the season in November 2025.
Due to the said inflationary trend, investors and dealers were invested massively in sugar actions to make profits.
We learn that currently, the organizations representative of sugar are trying to negotiate ex-factor prices with the government, keeping in sight the average price of sugar cane during the crushing season.
“There are estimates that the thousands have designed a link with wholesalers, dealers and distributors and manipulated prices on the domestic market. The estimated sugar prices at the old price, then with the taxation of the sales tax, were set to Rs140 to Rs145 per kg. By incorporating other costs, the maximum price of sugar should not exceed RS155-160 per kg, “confirmed high-level official sources speaking to The news Sunday.
As an important development, the competent authorities have proposed a paradigm shift in the regulatory mechanism to the government for the introduction and modification of the laws to confiscate the seized sugar of resellers instead of selling it at an official price and making them money.
Official sources have indicated that the Prime Minister had given the repression of the sugar mafia repression which would continue without any intervention.
FIA, IB and FBR have carried out operations and found evidence and evidence of holes, resellers, wholesalers and distributors leading to an alleged manipulation of the fixing of interior prices.