KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday dismissed applications filed by former president and Pakistan People's Party’s Co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur and others against the banking court order with regard to transferring multi-billion fake bank accounts case to accountability courts in Islamabad.Asif Ali Zardari, Faryal Talpur, banker Hussain Lawai, Khawaja Anwar Majeed and others, who were named as co-accused and beneficiary in the multi-billion fake accounts and money laundering case, have challenged the banking court order in the Sindh High Court with regard to transferring the fake account case to administrative judge of accountability courts in Islamabad.Applicants' counsel Farooq H Naek and Shaukat Hayat submitted that no cognizable offence of NAB has been made out and the same has no force as the Supreme Court has already, on the basis of material collected during the probe of the joint investigation team, transferred the investigation of the entire subject matter to NAB authorities at Islamabad.They questioned the jurisdiction for Transfer of the case to accountability court and submitted that the instant case cannot be transferred on the application of chairman NAB to accountability court, Islamabad, in view of provisions of Section 16-A of NAO Ordinance 1999.They submitted that no cognizable offence under NAO has allegedly been made out from the contents of FIR. They submitted that there was no specific direction of the Supreme Court in its January 7 order for Transfer of the case to accountability court besides in the inter-provincial Transfer of a case, the Transfer application lies before the SC under Section 16-A (b) of NAO 1999. They submitted that the prosecutor general NAB has neither moved the application under Section 16-A nor the SC has passed such order for Transfer of the case. The court was requested to set aside the impugned order of the banking court on March 15 and in meantime suspend the operation of the impugned order till disposal of the application. The National Accountability Bureau’s prosecutor submitted that Transfer of multi-billion fake bank accounts case against former president Asif Ali Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur and others to the administrative judge of accountability courts in Islamabad was made under the specific instruction and direction of the Supreme Court.
04-03-2019, 02:39 PM
Transfer of fake accounts case to Islamabad
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