Arrest warrants released for Zardari, others in money-laundering scam

Warrants were released for suspects absconding in a box including Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Zardari, Namar Majeed, Aslam Masood, Arif Khan, Naseer Abdullah Hussain, Adnan Javed, Mohammad Umair, Iqbal, Azam Wazir Khan, Zain Malik, and Mustafa Zulqarnain.

The justice systematic a suspects to be arrested and presented before it by Sep 4.

The Federal Investigation Agency is questioning 32 people in propinquity to income laundering from fictitious accounts, including Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur. Zardari’s tighten help Hussain Lawai was arrested final month in tie with a probe.

The banking justice conference a box on Thursday authorized an prolongation in Talpur’s halt bail until a subsequent conference on Sep 4.

Interim bails for some others, including Shehzad Jatoi and Sher Muhammad Mugheri, were also extended until a same date.

A preference on a bail of Lawai and Taha Raza was shelved until Aug 18.

The justice also authorized movement remand of a dual under-custody indicted Anwar Majeed and Abdul Ghani Majeed, on a FIA’s request.

Over 20 ‘benami’ accounts during some private banks were non-stop in 2013, 2014 and 2015 from where exchange value billions of rupees were made, according to sources. The amount, according to FIA sources, is pronounced to be black income collected from several kickbacks, commissions and bribes.

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