ISLAMABAD – Former President Asif Ali Zardari lands in yet another bigtrouble as two more companies belonging to the Zardari Group have beenidentified in connection with the alleged laundering of billions of rupees.
Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has made the startling revelations inthe Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday.
Asif Ali Zardari is currently being probed as part of a 2015 case regardingfake 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 haveidentified two additional companies — M/s Landmarks and National Gases(Pvt) Limited — tied up with the investigation.
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The agency said it came to know of the two companies from a hard diskconfiscated during last week’s raid on Khoski Sugar Mills — an OmniGroup-owned facility whose head Anwar Majeed is a close Zardari confidant.
