ISLAMABAD – Former president Asif Ali Zardari has filed a petition seeking the formation of a larger Supreme Court bench to hear his review petition in the money laundering and fake bank accounts case on Tuesday.
Zardari’s counsel, Advocate Latif Khosa, filed a separate plea on the former president’s behalf for constitution of a larger bench, as the apex court heard review petitions filed by Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur and Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah requesting to restrain the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) from probing the case.
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The co-chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party also contended the court jurisdiction and stated that several judges from the top judiciary were also in favour of determining the limits to the exercise of suo motu powers.
Earlier, in a petition, the former president had requested the top court to bar FIA from running a ‘parallel inquiry’ into the money laundering case as the National Accountability Bureau was already involved in the investigations.
FIA is investigating dozens of people in relation to money laundering from fake accounts, including Zardari and Faryal Talpur. Zardari’s close aide Hussain Lawai was arrested in July in connection with the probe while former president’s other close aide and Omni Group chairman Anwar Majeed was also arrested.
Asif Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur had secured bail from a banking court in Karachi. The court has recently extended the bail of the duo till March 5th.
