ISLAMABAD: Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) on Saturday summoned the former President Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur for recording their statements in relation to Rs35 million money laundering case.
According to the FIA authorities, the agency’s commercial banking circle has summoned the duo today around 11 am.
Zardari and Talpur are declared absconders in the money laundering case, FIA reported.
In the case, 32 people are accused of money laundering from fictitious accounts and in relation to this, Zardari’s close aide and Pakistan Stock Exchange Chairman, Hussain Lawai was also arrested earlier this month.
The FIA investigation began when the financial monitoring unit of the State Bank of Pakistan issued a transaction report, regarding ten bank accounts, in January this year.
Sources claimed that at least 20 benami accounts at a private bank were opened in 2013, 2014 and 2015 from where transactions worth billions of rupees were made.
According to the FIA sources, the amount is said to be black money which has been gathered via various kickbacks, commissions, and bribes.
Despite these huge transactions, bank authorities never reported them to the concerned authorities.
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