Asif Ali Zardari and Faryal Talpur get 10-day protective bail in fake accounts case

F.P. Report

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court granted on Tuesday former president Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur 10-day protective bail in the mega money laundering case.

They have been ordered to submit Rs1 million each as surety bonds. The PPP leaders appeared in court on Tuesday.

They said that the FIA didn’t name them in the case.

Asif Zardari and Faryal Talpur said that they want to appear in accountability court but fear arrest.

They had asked for a stay order on the Supreme Court’s decision to shift the case to Islamabad. The court said that it will make a decision on that after hearing NAB’s stance.

The PPP co-chairperson was also granted 10-day protective bail in the Park Lane Estate Company.

The Supreme Court had formed an investigation team to probe the fake accounts case.

The team submitted a report in which it named 172 people, including former president Asif Ali Zardari, his sister MNA Faryal Talpur and son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, Sindh Excise Minister Mukesh Kumar Chawla, former Sindh chief minister Qaim Ali Shah, former Sindh home minister Sohail Anwar Siyal, Sindh Energy Minister Imtiaz Sheikh and Ali Nawaz Mehar, a former minister of state for industries.

On January 7, the Supreme Court sent the fake accounts case to NAB and told it to wrap up the investigation in two months. The court had earlier said that the references should be filed in Rawalpindi, not Karachi.

The matter was taken up by the court over the delay in a 2015 Federal Investigation Agency probe into money laundering via fake bank accounts.