Supreme Court rejects Asif Ali Zardari's request to transfer reference to Karachi A request was made by the former president to transfer the fake bank accounts, Park Lane Estate Pvt Ltd, Thatta Water Supply and Tosha Khana Corruption Reference to the Karachi Accountability Court. NOV, 2020

 

Supreme Court rejects Asif Ali Zardari's request to transfer reference to Karachi 

ISLAMABAD, Nov 14 (APP): The Registrar's Office of the Supreme Court has declared four corrupt references of former President Asif Ali Zardari pending in the Islamabad Accountability Court (IAC) as contradictory to the previous order of the Supreme Court. According to the report, while withdrawing the application, the Registrar of the Supreme Court reminded that in the case of fake accounts, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on January 7, 2019, in compliance with the previous court order, referred these references to Islamabad. Were filed in court.

The Registrar's Office said that Asif Zardari had subsequently challenged the NAB's order to file references in the Islamabad court, but his application was rejected by the court on February 19, 2019 by the lawyers of the parties. Following the arguments, the court dismissed his application. The court office said that it observed that a second review was not guaranteed under the provisions of Rule 9 of Order 26 of the Supreme Court Rules 1980, thus the present application. Was synonymous with the second review and was therefore returned because it was not inadmissible.

The former president is facing four references in the Islamabad Accountability Court regarding fake bank accounts, Park Lane Estate Pvt Ltd, Thatta water supply and Tosha Khana corruption. In the Tosha Khana reference against Asif Zardari on September 9, the anti-corruption court on August 10. Park Lane State Pvt Ltd and on October 5 were charged with money laundering for making anonymous properties in the Thatta Water Supply Reference as well as in the fake bank accounts case.

Respondents in the petition filed by senior counsel Senator Farooq H Naik are NAB Chairman Javed Iqbal, Presiding Officer of the Accountability Court of Islamabad, former Prime Ministers Yousuf Raza Gilani and Nawaz Sharif, Abdul Ghani Majeed and former Summit Bank. CEO Hussain Loai has been nominated. The petition says that during the recent history of the country, Asif Zardari has faced political harassment and notoriety by being involved in many false and fabricated cases.

According to the petition, Asif Zardari had to face almost 11 years of rigorous imprisonment in false and politically motivated cases and he did so believing in the independence of the judiciary and Pakistan's justice system. He was acquitted in all the fabricated and false cases made against him. The petition states that the current reference has come to light from inquiries by the Federal Investigation Agency into fake anonymous accounts linked to various individuals and entities. The petition states that the State Bank of Pakistan's Financial Monitoring Unit Another investigation was launched on receipt of suspicious transaction reports from.