Another frontman of Zardari appears.

A domestic worker of former president and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has been accused of stashing Rs8.1 billion into one of his fake accounts, a local news outlet reported on Thursday. Mushtaq Ahmed, 37, who once served as one of Zardari's personal staff members, allegedly accumulated the wealth with Zain Malik through a joint fake account maintained in a private bank in Karachi during 2014-15. Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials began investigating the matter after the fake accounts saga surfaced.

Musthaq, who is currently in London, is now at the center of the joint investigation team (JIT) investigation, officials familiar with the probe revealed. "The bank record of account no.

1-2-15-20311-714-181041 Zain Malik/Mushtaq Ahmed at a private bank's Dolmen Mall, Karachi branch showed that joint account was operated between February 2014 to June 2015. Mustaq Ahmed allegedly withdrew all money in 157 transactions and inter-bank transfers. Inter-bank transfers were made to Omni Group owned by Abdul Ghani Majeed.

The nexus of many big guns is sealed by this joint account," the report stated. Reportedly, the investigators believe that Mushtaq Ahmed, who has been serving Zardari for one-and-a-half decade, fled the country on April 3, 2015 via EK-605 from Jinnah International Airport Karachi to Dubai, as he came on radar of the authorities for possessing huge assets.

Redpotedly, Mushtaq never filed his annual returns with the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR). The immigration record of both Zardari and Mushtaq suggested that both of them went on around 88 trips abroad together, in the past ten years.

Last time, Zardari and Musthaq travelled together on February 25, 2015 to United Arab Emirates (UAE), the investigation revealed further. According to National...

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