KARACHI: The Federal Investigation Agency on Saturday declared former president Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur absconders in relation to the money laundering case.
A two-member bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Saqib Nisar had taken suo motu notice into the FIA’s probe of a Rs35 billion money-laundering scam — during the hearing of which even reports emerged of the two Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leaders being put on the Exit Control List.
The duo was declared absconders in the case which also nominates others including Zardari’s close aide and Pakistan Stock Exchange Chairman Hussain Lawai.
The FIA also declared 20 people including Anwar Majeed and his son absconder in the money laundering case.
