ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday disposed of the case regarding discrepancies in financial assets of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.
A four-member bench of the ECP presided over by its Punjab member, Altaf Ibrahim Qureshi, heard the case where counsel Farooq Naek appeared to submit a reply on the PPP leader’s behalf.
Talking to media following the hearing, counsel Naek said that the ECP had raised objections regarding Bilawal’s assets which had now been put to rest.
“We submitted all the relevant documents to the ECP, and they accepted them,” he said.
Last year, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had summoned Bilawal to quiz him about the dubious transfer of a hefty amount of money from an account of a company he held shares in.
It may be mentioned here that NAB is also investigating the transfer of Rs1.22 billion to JV Opal from an account of Zardari Group of Companies.
Bilawal owns 25 per cent shares in Zardari Group while his father and PPP co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari, and aunt, Faryal Talpur, also have shares in the business enterprise.
However, the PPP chairman refused to appear before NAB, describing the anti-graft body as a product of a black law which acts as a tool in the PTI government’s hands for political victimisation.
Both Zardari and Talpur are among the key accused in a multi-billion rupees money laundering scandal that surfaced last year and is facing multiple corruption references at accountability courts.
