KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Sardar Latif Khosa has said former president Asif Zardari had nothing to do with millions of rupee transaction in Zardari Group’s bank account.
“Zardari has nothing to do with any transaction in Zardari Group accounts as he had resigned from his post in 2008, following being elected as president as per the constitutional requirement,” he said while talking to ARY News program PowerPlay.
He refuted media reports that Zardari was grilled by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in appearance on Monday.
However, the counsel of Zardari admitted that 15 million rupees were transferred into Zardari Group bank accounts for which Faryal Talpur has sought details.
He said on Faryal’s request, the FIA said they would send questionnaire about the case to Farooq Naek, her focal person in the case. She would answer all the questions of the FIA as she was overseeing the company matters.
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Latif Khosa said Zardari was almost exempted in the case.
He said the case was registered in 2015 during the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government tenure.
Earlier in a press conference, PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira said some media channels misreported that the questionnaire was leaked ahead of Zardari’s appearance before the FIA and he was asked such and such questions.
He said no questionnaire was handed over to Asif Zardari. He said it was a kind of preliminary hearing and he was not asked even a single question.
The case background
Zardari and his sister were among over a dozen suspects declared absconders in the money-laundering scam.
In the FIA list, Anwar Majeed and his son’s names appeared on top of the list while those of Zardari and Talpur were on the 19th and 20th number, respectively.
According to the FIR registered by FIA, transactions of billions of rupees were made into suspicious accounts, including the one owned by the PPP leaders, the Zardari Group, which is accused of receiving Rs 15 million of the laundered money.
Two days after being declared an absconder in a money-laundering scam, Faryal Talpur obtained pre-arrest bail from the Sindh High Court.
Ms Talpur filed a petition in the SHC Larkana circuit bench seeking pre-arrest bail.
In December 2016, the Pakistan Rangers conducted raids at the Karachi office of the Omni Group of Companies and the residence of its owner Anwar Majeed, a close aid of Zardari, and confiscated record allegedly related with money laundering.
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