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Asif Zardari Acquitted in Alleged Illegal Assets Case

Rawalpindi (August 26, 2017): An accountability court in Rawalpindi acquitted former President and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Asif Ali Zardari in a reference related to his assets.

According to the details, an accountability court, Rawalpindi, on Saturday acquitted former president and PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari in a reference related to his alleged illegal assets in Pakistan and abroad.

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Khalid Mehmood Ranjha, the judge of Accountability Court No 1 had accepted the application seeking the acquittal of former president.

PPP’s Farooq H. Naek represented the former president in the court.

Earlier this month, the accountability court had reserved judgement on the petition seeking Zardari’s acquittal.

The court had conducted day-to-day proceedings on the application under section 265-K of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) in the nearly two decade-old corruption reference filed in 2001 and later closed in 2007 under the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), issued by the government of retired Gen Pervez Musharraf.Ex-president Zardari and his late wife and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, in the reference, had been accused of acquiring assets through illegal means.

Zardari was accused of holding assets in Pakistan as well as in abroad through illegal means. PPP stalwart Farooq H. Naek represented Zardari and filed petition for bail in Judge Khalid Mehmood Ranjha’s court which was approved.

It was ruled that there is no legal basis of corruption references filed by NAB.Sources told that the former president has been bailed out of the case due to unavailability of strong evidence against him. Both Zardari and his wife Benazir Bhutto were accused of holding assets through illegal means.

The reference was first filed in 2001. It was closed in 2007 under NRO and reopened afterwards.

Commenting over the court verdict Asif Ali Zardari daughter said, “While Imran Khan and Nawaz Sharif hide from NAB, my father Asif Ali Zardari’s last pending case has just been acquitted [sic]. Faced 11+ years without a single conviction.”

 

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