- Thursday, April 18, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
A Pakistani court on Saturday (26) acquitted former president Asif Ali Zardari in a major corruption case that dogged him for almost two decades, his lawyer said. Zardari, who left office in 2013, faced corruption allegations involving Swiss banks dating back to the 1990s. He was accused along with his late wife, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, of laundering $12 million of illegal kickbacks. “An accountability court today acquitted Asif Zardari in a case filed against him in 1998 accusing him of making and maintaining assets beyond his known sources of income,” lawyer Farooq H. Naik said. He said the…
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