Ex-Pak prez Zardari acquitted in corruption case

November 24, 2015 20:06

Pakistan's former president Asif Ali Zardari was today acquitted in a corruption case dating back to the 1990s when his slain wife Benazir Bhutto was prime minister

Known as SGS-Cotecna reference case, it was related to the awarding of pre-shipment contracts to a Swiss company in which Pakistan People's Party chief Zardari had allegedly received kickbacks during Bhutto's term as prime minister.

An accountability court had reserved the judgment on November 11 after completion of the arguments, which was announced today by judge Muhammad Bashir.

"The court has honourably acquitted Asif Ali Zardari, in the 18-year-old reference cases for which he had spent eight years in prison," his counsel Farooq Hussain Naek said.

The case was initially launched in 1997 against Zardari, Bhutto and some other officials.

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