ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday extended the interim bails of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur in the fake bank accounts case till Thursday.
The bench comprising Justice Amir Farooq and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kiyani issued orders for extension in the interim bails of both accused.
The IHC further ordered the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to present records pertaining to the fake accounts case on Thursday. When asked by the judge as to “why an amount of Rs1.5 billion was transferred into Talpur’s bank account,” counsel Farooq H Naek replied that the co-accused comes from a family of sugarcane cultivators and that the sugarcane was provided to the sugar mills of the Omni Group. Naek also apprised the court that those accounts were in fact business accounts and were not fake.
NAB authorities alleged that Zardari and Talpur were abettors in an offence and that the duo assisted in transactions pertaining to fake accounts.
