AC approves Aseefa Bhutto's appeal to meet Zardari
Last updated on: 05 August,2019 04:48 pm
AC denied the request for meeting on August 8 stating he is due in court on that day.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – The Accountability Court on Monday approved the petition filed by Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, daughter of former President Asif Ali Zardari, to meet him on August 6.
AC Judge Muhammad Bashir presided over the hearing of Aseefa Bhutto Zardari’s petition. The petition stated that Aseefa should be allowed to meet her father who is currently in custody of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on physical remand in the fake bank accounts case.
The court approved the meeting and remarked that the investigating office can let her meet him on August 6 if he wants. However, the court rejected the appeal for a meeting on August 8 stating that Asif Ali Zardari is due to appear before court on August 8.
On June 10, Asif Ali Zardari had surrendered himself to a team of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) after Islamabad High Court (IHC) rejected his and his sister Faryal Talpur’s pre-arrest bail plea in the money laundering case.
Following the refusal of bail, a team of anti-corruption watchdog accompanied by police personnel had reached the residence of PPP co-chairman and arrested him. Asif Zardari was taken to NAB office in Rawalpindi where he was shifted to cell no 2.
Small scuffles were erupted between police and supporters of PPP outside his family’s residence in Islamabad as he was taken into custody.
The charges in the latest case centre around allegations Zardari laundered vast sums of money through suspect bank accounts and companies.
NAB is conducting investigations in pursuance of the Supreme Court’s verdict in the money laundering of billions through fake accounts case wherein it forwarded the joint investigation team (JIT) report with directions to investigate and file references.
Zardari has repeatedly dismissed allegations he had a hand in the scheme. Never popular and always shrouded in controversy, Zardari -- who was once jailed for 11 years for corruption -- stepped down from the president s office in 2013. But he has continued to serve as co-chairman of the opposition PPP.