National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Saturday decided to summon Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, former president Asif Ali Zardari and the latter's sister Faryal Talpur in fake bank accounts case.
Joint Investigation team (JIT) of NAB has prepared questionnaire in this regard. Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah will also be summoned soon for the interrogation, the sources told. Earlier on December 24, the JIT formed on the apex court's orders to probe into the alleged money-laundering case, presented its 128-page final report to the court which included recommendations for filing 16 NAB references.
The report had mentioned that 29 fake accounts were identified by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) which laundered Rs42 billion, however, the team further discovered 11,500 bank accounts of 924 account holders, 59 Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) and 24,500 Cash Transactions Reports (CTRs).
All of these details were scrutinized, besides the loan profile of 924 individuals.
Later, the court had ordered Zardari to submit his reply by December 31, however, during the previous hearing extended his and his sister s interim bail till January 7.
Besides the Zardari family, several prominent individuals including former Summit Bank president Hussain Lawai and Omni Group president Anwar Majeed also have been accused in the case.
Property tycoon Malik Riaz, his son-in-law Zain, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah and PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari have been also included in the inquiry.
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