Islamabad: National Accountability Office) and will provide details on Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari of illicit assets worth $ 1.5 billion in the Supreme Court on Monday, informed sources told Dawn on Saturday.
According to Knapp, President Zardari had accumulated these assets through ‘illegal means’. However, none of the assets under custody Knapp.
President Zardari was always denied the possession of these assets, and a challenge to the Office of the assertions.
The sources said that all the assets of the Chairman, which had been confiscated by Knapp, it was de-frozen within a few days after the issuance of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) in 2007.
Farhatullah Babar, spokesman for the presidency that President Zardari has regained all his assets frozen by the courts after having implemented the National Survey.
And Knapp were nine cases against the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chair, and was acquitted in one case, involving the import of a bullet-proof BMW car without paying customs duties.
NAB sources said Zardari’s alleged assets of 66 million dollars still held by the Swiss court after it was frozen in the SGS, Cotecna Inspection prior to shipment issue. However, President Zardari had disowned them too.
Asghar Rana, a senior lawyer working for the GAO, said the restrictions imposed on all frozen assets held by the President had withdrawn under the NRO.
It was learned that Knapp spent millions of rupees to the investigation of cases against a number of leaders of Pakistan People’s Party but failed to prove any of them.
According to the Pakistani High Commission in the United Kingdom Wajid Shamsul Hasan, Knapp Rs660 spent more than a million dollars only in cases tried to the Swiss People’s Party leaders in court.
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Babar Awan, who fought many of the issues on behalf of the President, told Dawn that there was a time when all the assets of President Zardari in the country have been frozen, but they were gradually de-frozen, while it competes in different situations the courts.
‘A judge of the Lahore High Court Ahsanul Hoque Chowdhury has passed the freezing of all assets for President Zardari, within and outside the country. However, it was his arrest in his home state in the province (Punjab) only, and said, ‘Babar said.
Referring to the funds deposited in Switzerland, said Minister of Finance in the ownership had not been proven.
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