As the news comes that the Supreme Court will start hearing petitions against NRO cases from 7th Dec, Geo News has reported that in a secret operation headed by Pakistan envoy to UK, Mr. Wajid Shamsul Hasan, documents and evidences related to the Swiss Money Laundering Case have been taken over in Geneva and shifted to unknown location(s).
It is not clear where these documents are presently kept at, whether they have been brought up to the Pakistan Embassy in UK by Mr Hasan, and who has its official custody now.
The Swiss money-laundering charges against President Asif Zardari were taken seriously by the international banking circles and the governments in 1999 when US Congress launched an intensive investigation into the allegations of money-laundering by Citibank through private banking.
A permanent sub-committee on investigation by the US Congress found two cases intriguing enough to kick off a thorough probe. Nigeria s military dictator Sani Abacha and President Zardari’s bank accounts qualified for this investigation and US Congress found that both had been involved in money-laundering through Citibanks negligence, said a report.
Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Britain Mr. Wajid Shamsul Hasan, is a close confidant of President Asif Zardai and the Bhutto family. He reportedly personally received at least 12 cartons of original documents and evidences against Mr Zarari against whom the money laundering case was filed by the Pakistan government in Geneva, Geo News reported Tuesday.
Geo News team is said to have secretly filmed the whole episode from an undisclosed location after receiving tip-off from reliable sources.
According to its correspondent, the Prosecutor General of Pakistan deposited these cartons to Geneva legal authorities during the former President Gen (R) Pervez Musharraf’s government.
The secret operation on Monday was carried out at the bidding of a "top personality" of Pakistan, says Geo, as these evidences could be used if the said case was reopened after the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) term came to an end, on November 28, 2009.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has announced that it will look into the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) that has benefited President Zardari among others. The hearings are said to start on December 7th.
The judge in Geneva, Daniel Devaud, who originally investigated the charges against President Zardari late wife Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto is on record having said that the withdrawal of the case does not prove Zardari’s innocence. The withdrawal of the case had come as a shock to me and it should not be interpreted as a sign of Zardari’s innocence, the Daily Times quoted Devaud as saying.
Source: PK on WEB
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