ISLAMABAD: An accountability court in Islamabad on Monday rejected the exemption plea of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur in money laundering case. Zardari, who reached the capital earlier, has asked the PPP workers not to come to the court. Earlier on March 20, PPP workers and police clashed outside the National Accountability (NAB) court where Zardari and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari have recorded their statements. THE CASE:n 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 April 08, 2019 06:00 UTC