ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry has asserted that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had so far recovered Rs33 billion in the fake accounts case involving PPP co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari.
Taking to Twitter today (Saturday), the Information Minister said, “With such a recovery, the volume of corruption in the country could be gauged easily as how the past rulers had looted the country and Sindh.”
آصف زرداری کے جعلی اکاؤنٹس کیس میں اب تک نیب 33 ارب روپیہ وصول کر چکی ہے اور یہ تقریباً 200 ملین ڈالر بنتے ہیں اصل مقدمہ 5000 ارب روپے کے لگ بھگ ہے اس وصولی سے آپ اندازہ لگا لیں کے اس ملک میں کرپشن کی کیا سطح رہی ہے اور حکمرانوں نے سندہ اور پاکستان کو کیسے لوٹا ہے
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) July 3, 2021
“The actual financial irregularities in the case amounted to around Rs5,000 billion,” Fawad Chaudhry added.
In September 2020, an accountability court in Islamabad indicted the former president, his sister Faryal Talpur and other accused in the mega-money laundering reference pertaining to the fake accounts case.
Zardari is facing multiple corruption cases that had stemmed from a mega-money laundering scandal, which came into limelight in 2018. This is not the first time that the information minister has fired a broadside at the Sindh government for their alleged corruption.
In his recent visit to Karachi, Chaudhry had accused the Sindh rulers and the top PPP leadership of misusing public funds to launder money abroad. He had also advocated monitoring the use of public funds given by the federal government to Sindh through a “third party”.
