ISLAMABAD: A Join Investigation Team (JIT) probing a money-laundering scam involving Rs35 billion has summoned Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur today for questioning, ARY News reported.
Sources said a Federal Investigation Team (FIA) team from Karachi will visit today the federal capital where it will hand over evidences it has gathered so far to the JIT.
The PPP leaders have been asked to appear before the JIT probing the money laundering allegations against them. If they both turn up they will likely be quizzed about the scam.
The FIA team is said to have tracked down money trail of Rs23 billion out of the total Rs35 billion involved in the case.
Earlier, the FIA State Bank Circle submitted a charge-sheet of the case against Hussain Lawai and other accused in the relevant court.
Zardari and his sister were among over a dozen suspects declared absconders in the money-laundering scam.
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.
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