Zardari will remain in NAB custody till June 21 on physical remand.
Islamabad (Pakistan Point News – 11th June, 2019) The Accountability Court has approved 10-day physical remand of Pakistan People's Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari.
Zardari will remain in NAB custody till June 21 on physical remand.
Former president Asif Zardari was produced before Accountability Court judge Muhammad Bashir on Tuesday.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) while seeking his physical remand had contended that there are eight solid grounds for Zardari’s arrest.
The bureau said that the fake accounts were used to make illegal transactions. The NAB also submitted evidence against Zardari in the court.
Approving NAB’s request, the Accountability Court granted his 10-day physical remand.
PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari was arrested by a NAB team from his Islamabad residence hours after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) rejected the PPP leader's bail plea on Monday.
A two-member bench of the high court, comprising Justice Amir Farooq and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kiyani, had allowed the anti-graft watchdog to arrest Zardari.
Asif Ali Zardari surrendered himself to a team of the NAB after IHC rejected Asif Ali Zardari and Faryal Talpur's his pre-arrest bail plea in the money laundering case.
Both Zardari and Talpur had left the court building before the verdict was announced. The accountability watchdog had constituted two teams for the arrest of the former president. One team was dispatched to Parliament House and another to Zardari House in Islamabad, officials said.
Bureau, accompanied by police personnel, arrested PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari from his residence in Islamabad.
A number of party workers and Zardari's children Bilawal and Aseefa saw him off as the former president was driven away in a black Landcruiser.
The case pertains to suspicious transactions worth Rs4.4 billion allegedly carried out through a fictitious bank account. According to the prosecution, the account titled M/s A One International was fake and it received a sum of Rs4.4bn out of which Rs30m was paid to the Zardari Group at two different times.
