An anti-corruption court docket in Pakistan on Monday indicted former president Asif Ali Zardari within the Park Lane and Thatta Water deliver circumstances.
Mr. Zardari, sixty three, the co-chairman of Pakistan Peoples birthday party (PPP), become latest within the Islamabad-based mostly courtroom and pleaded not guilty.
all through the hearing, the court indicted 19 others accused within the Park Lane case and 15 others within the Thatta water deliver case.
The court docket closing week had indicted Mr. Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur in a mega money laundering case.
in the Park Lane case, Mr. Zardari and his son Bilawal Ali Zardari are accused of paying for 2,460 kanals of major property in Islamabad at extraordinarily depreciated costs the usage of frontmen.
in the Thatta water supply case, a private contractor become illegaly awarded project contracts. within the cash laundering case, it is alleged false debts were used by the previous Pres ident and different accused to park and launder sick-gotten wealth.
The court has rejected Zardari's plea seeking acquittal in all three instances.
The husband of the nation's first woman best minister Benazir Bhutto was arrested remaining yr by way of the countrywide Accountability Bureau and probed for months earlier than being launched in December on clinical grounds.
Mr. Zardari has maintained the allegations in opposition t him are a vilification campaign by means of prime Minister Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) celebration.
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