— Cancels bail bonds of all suspectsKARACHI: A banking court on Friday gave orders to transfer the mega-money laundering case to Islamabad. On Monday, the court had reserved its verdict on the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) plea of moving the case to Islamabad from Karachi. The court also withdrew the bail granted to former president Asif Ali Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur and other suspects in the case. In December 2015, the Federal Investigation Agency began a discreet investigation into certain bank accounts through which multi-billion rupee transactions have been made. Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar took suo motu notice of the ‘slow progress’ in the money laundering case.

Source: Pakistan Today March 15, 2019 06:00 UTC