ISLAMABAD, September 6: Two more companies belonging to the Zardari Group have been identified in connection with the alleged laundering of billions of rupees, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) told the Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday.
PPP Co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari, his sibling Faryal Talpur and several of their business associates are currently being probed as part of a 2015 case regarding fake accounts and fictitious transactions conducted through 29 ‘benami’ accounts in Summit Bank, Sindh Bank and UBL.
The FIA, in its progress report submitted in the SC today, claimed to have identified two additional companies – M/s Landmarks and National Gases (Pvt) Limited – tied up with the investigation.
The agency said it came to know of the two companies from a hard disk confiscated during last week’s raid on Khoski Sugar Mills – an Omni Group-owned facility whose head Anwar Majeed is a close Zardari confidant.
The report said that M/s Landmark is a partnership firm between Zardari, Talpur and Azra Fazal, whereas M/s NGS has several members of the Majeed family holding key positions.-Agencies
