ISLAMABAD: The Accountability Court hearing multi-billion rupees fake bank accounts case on Monday indicted former president Asif Ali Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur and other accused in mega money laundering case.
Accountability Court judge Muhammad Azam Khan, while hearing mega money laundering case, marked attendance of Zardari, Talpur and other accused, and framed charges against them.
The court also summoned three prosecution witnesses, including Syed Muhammad Atif, Manzoor Hussain and Arslan Aslam, for recording their statements during the next hearing to be held on October 13.
Zardari accompanied by his sister and daughter Aseefa Bhutto appeared before the court, while the court indicted Omni Group Chairman Khawaja Anwar Majeed via video link from Karachi.
The court handed over the charge sheet to all accused for reading. Zardari, Talpur and other accused have pleaded not guilty in the references. Zardari's counsel Farooq H Naek could not appear before the court as he was busy in the Supreme Court in another case.
When Zardari was asked after appearing before the court whether Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will support the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) according to the decisions taken by the opposition Multi-Parties Conference (MPC), Zardari said "Inshallah".
The court has marked the attendance of Zardari, Faryal Talpur, Hussain Lawai, Khawaja Anwar Majid, Abdul Ghani Majeed, Taha Raza, Arif Khan, Muhammad Umair, Mustafa Z Majeed, Khawaja Muhammad Salman Younus, Imran Khan, Muhammad Aurangzeb, Bilal Sheikh, and Adeel Shah, nominated in the supplementary reference by the NAB.
In the interim reference regarding mega money laundering case, the NAB has a total of 30 accused including Asif Ali Zardari, Faryal Talpur, Hussain Lawai, Taha Raza, Anwar Majeed, Abdul Ghani Majeed, Noreen Sultan, Kiran Aman, Adeel Shah Rashidi, Muhammad Ashraf, Qasim Ali, Shahzad Ali, Sher Muhammad, Zain Malik, Iqbal Khan Noori, Nimr Majeed, Mustafa Zulqarnain, Aslam Masood, Muhammad Arif Khan, Nassar Abdullah, Adnan Javed, Muhammad Umair, Iqbal Arian, Azam Wazir Khan, Christopher D Craz, Muhammad Nasir Sheikh, Ghanzanfar Ahsan, Sawoodi Morkas, Muhammad Raheel Mobin, and Ali Kamal Majeed.
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