Corruption: Bilawal Zardari insists probe of fake accounts case should be held in Sindh

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Bilawal insists probe of fake accounts case should be held in Sindh

Dawn.comUpdated April 02, 2019
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PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari addresses a press conference in Larkana. — DawnNewsTV Screengrab

PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday repeated his party's objections to the transfer of the fake accounts case to Rawalpindi, saying that the rule of law should be similar for all citizens.

While addressing a press conference in Larkana, Bilawal claimed that Bhutto had always been persecuted in Rawalpindi and added that the probe of the fake accounts case should be held in Sindh. "Investigation is held [in the place] where the crime has been committed. This is our legal objection and we will continue to raise it on all platforms," he said.

The PPP chief termed reports circulating regarding the alleged arrest of Owais Muzzafar alias Tappi — who is said to be the foster brother of former president Asif Ali Zardari — as "fake", saying that such news was being spread so that the government can deflect attention from the "petrol bomb" that had been dropped on the public. The government on Sunday had increased the prices of all petroleum products by 6.45 per cent.

"The people of Pakistan are drowning in the tsunami of inflation ever since Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf came to power," he said.

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He also heaped criticism on Prime Minister Imran Khan for saying that he will not come to Ghotki to ask for votes but to work for the people's development. According to the PPP chairman, Ghotki's residents would be "insulted" over the prime minister's comments as they suggested that the latter had implied that Sindh held no electoral importance.

"A prime minister comes to [the people] and say that I don't need Sindh; what kind of a statement is this?" he wondered.

"You are the prime minister of all of Pakistan. You are not the prime minister of one province or one city or one seat. You should apologise [for your remarks], how can you say this, how can you use such words?"

 

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SHC rejects appeals against transfer of fake accounts case to Rawalpindi

Shafi Baloch
April 02, 2019
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Orders given after three defence lawyers completed their arguments against the banking court's orders. — APP/File

The Sindh High Court on Tuesday dismissed all applications seeking the reversal of a banking court's orders to move the fake accounts case investigation from Karachi to Rawalpindi.

Former president Asif Ali Zardari, Faryal Talpur, Abdul Gani Majeed, Anwar Majeed and Hussain Lowai had all appealed against the banking court's ruling in the SHC.

The FIA had named Zardari, Talpur, Omni Group chairman Anwar Majeed, his sons and over 10 others as suspects in an interim charge sheet filed in the banking court in August last year for alleged money laundering to the tune of over Rs4 billion after 29 ‘fake’ bank accounts were found opened in three banks — Summit Bank, Sindh Bank and United Bank Ltd.

On March 15, 2019, a banking court had granted the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) its request to transfer the fake bank accounts case to the accountability court of Rawalpindi for trial.

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The orders had been given after the Supreme Court — which had taken suo motu notice of the case and constituted a JIT to probe the matter — referred the matter to NAB to launch its probe independently and complete it within two months.

In today's hearing, the defence submitted their reply to NAB's reply submitted in the last hearing of the case.

Soon after that, the defending lawyer, Farooq H. Naek, gave his concluding arguments and reiterated all the points had had made during previous hearings of the case.

"The Supreme Court had only given orders for further investigation in the case," Naek insisted, arguing there was no reason to shift the case too.

To this, the court asked that if the orders had not directly been given by the the Supreme Court, did the NAB chairman not have the power to request a case to be moved from one court to the other.

However, the defending lawyer insisted that a NAB court does not have the power to hear the case. He further added that the NAB chairman should have waited for a final challan to be submitted in court (before handing in the application to move the case).

The lawyer for Hussain Lawai and Taha Raza, Shoukat Hayat, in his concluding arguments said that "this was the first case in history to have been shifted from one province to another".

"A trial court does not hold the power to transfer a case from one province to another," he said, adding that the NAB chairman also does not hold this right.

The lawyer for Anwar Majeed and Abdul Ghani Majeed, Barrister Jamshed Malik, said that had the Supreme Court given clear orders for the case's transfer, the NAB chairman would not have had to write to the court requesting it.

"The investigation officer in the case would simply have come in and said that the top court has ordered for the case to be transferred," he added.

"The banking court overstepped its powers when it transferred the case," Malik insisted.

However, the court was not swayed, and once the defence's arguments concluded, the court rejected all appeals, thereby green-lighting the transfer of the case from Karachi to Rawalpindi's accountability court.

 

[El Sidd]

totally !!

Shireen Mazari's daughter agrees.

Faisal Wowda is very angry.

 

[zulu]

Because its easy to manipulate courts in Sindh (from top to bottom their hired for many years ) same practice NAwaz sharif doing in Punjab from 1980 sab ko apni jeeb main rakhoo all is well

 

[shahbaz baig]

totally !!

Shireen Mazari's daughter agrees.

Faisal Wowda is very angry.

Your sense of humor is awesome lol.


Anyway billo rani & whole zardari clan is in pain. First of all billo rani show us any example where accused dictate to law enforcement & judiciary about the parameters of investigations. If you can present any such example of Pakistan before judiciary then your dictation can be accepted. But the fact is that there is no such example.

Your case belong to Pakistan & not belong under the parameters of 18 amendment. So stop this stupidly. You are making your own fun.

 

[HAIDER]

Because its easy to manipulate courts in Sindh (from to to bottom their hired person for many years ) same practise NAwaz sharif doing in Punjab from 1980 sab ko apni jeeb main rakhoo all is well

Nawaz appointed 13 Kashmiri ..Butt and Mian judges for his personal and wealth safety ....

 

[zulu]

Look how efficiently they working for him just check last 40 days of ruling by courts all in favor of them someone recently posted all those in thread on pdf 3-4 days ago

Nawaz appointed 13 Kashmiri ..Butt and Mian judges for his personal and wealth safety ....

 

[El Sidd]

Look how efficiently they working for him just check last 40 days of ruling by courts all in favor of them someone recently posted all those in thread on pdf 3-4 days ago

do not make this kashmiri thing. the businessmen of war want that to happen.
be aware of the shahs of delhi muhallah

 

[crankthatskunk]

Pakistani judiciary needs some impartial judges to prosecute them, and give most of them death sentence for treason.
Everyday citizens of Pakistan dies because Butts and Zardari failed to provide the necessary facilities of health, food and clean water, instead looted the funds which should have been used for the benefit of the people of Pakistan.
Death and misery of all those Pakistanis are on the heads and shoulders of these corrupt judges who provide help and assistance to these looters.
RIP Pakistan, you are destroyed from within.
You don't need external enemy.

 

[zulu]

I did not make it kashmir issue corruption is common treat in all does not matter from rhere they belong case in study Zardari of sindh,NS of PUnjab,Fazlur rehman of KPK just look at similarity of their words,action and tricks so much same that seems ""kumbh ky meely main khoye huway bhai """

do not make this kashmiri thing. the businessmen of war want that to happen.
be aware of the shahs of delhi muhallah

 

[El Sidd]

I did not make it kashmir issue corruption is common treat in all does not matter from rhere they belong case in study Zardari of sindh,NS of PUnjab,Fazlur rehman of KPK just look at similarity of their words,action and tricks so much same that seems ""kumbh ky meely main khoye huway bhai """

wo jo bhi hai

per kashmiri keyword does not have relevance here. it starts from there and then ends at dhaka university. so do not play into the hands of faras

 

[HAIDER]

Look how efficiently they working for him just check last 40 days of ruling by courts all in favor of them someone recently posted all those in thread on pdf 3-4 days ago

Our politicians are easy to sell product. They can break the country for there personal gain.

 

[zulu]

@Retired Troll Hazrat that kashmiri thing not mention by me as knew corrupt comes from all way of life,race,religion when they appoint only criteria who gonna more supportive to their corruption@HAIDER he raised an valid point kindly edit it

 

[WarKa DaNG]

There goes the judicial system again

 

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PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday repeated his party's objections to the transfer of the fake accounts case to Rawalpindi, saying that the rule of law should be similar for all citizens.

If rule of law were to be similar for all citizens, then you, your phupo and your daddy would have been in shackles now, bundled away somewhere in a dark cell and enjoying "Paanjas" of police every 2nd day or being hanged upside down for hours at a time.


These leeches really make my blood boil by playing victim!