Money laundering case: Zardari siblings appear before accountability court.

ISLAMABAD:Former president and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and his sister appeared before accountability court on Tuesday in money laundering case.Accountability judge, Arshad Malik is hearing the case as the court has summoned 30 suspects including Zardari, Talpur, Anwar Majeed, Hussain Lawai, Adeel Shah Rashdi, and AG Majeed.

Zardari and Talpur also appeared before the court on April 8 and an unusual development took place during the hearing when two women requested the accountability court to be allowed to become approvers both siblings.Two women named Kiran Aman and Noreen Sultan, who are among the 30 suspects nominated in the case, told the court that they are ready to testify as witnesses and had filed an application in this regard with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman, but the bureau had named them as accused instead.

The lawyers representing the other accused objected to this.Accountability Judge Mohammad Bashir sought a reply from NAB Prosecutor Sardar Muzaffar Abbasi on the plea.

Abbasi said that he was not sure about the application to NAB chief by the accused. The court then directed them to submit separate applications with the court.

FAKE ACCOUNTS CASE:In December 2015, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) began a discreet investigation into certain bank accounts through which multi-billion rupee transactions had been made. According to FIA sources, information regarding the fake accounts came to the fore when an intelligence agency picked up a prominent money changer in an unrelated case.

As the monitoring and investigation of these suspicious accounts continued, it surfaced that five of these accounts in two banks the Sindh Bank and Summit Bank had been used for transactions worth around Rs15 billion.Investigation showed the accounts were...