The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday filed a reference against former president Asif Ali Zardari for Rs8.3 billion transaction through fake bank accounts.
The People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman, along with a former employee of the President House, Mushtaq Ahmed, has been named in the reference filed before an accountability court.
The NAB alleged that an illegal transaction of Rs8.3 took place between Mushtaq Ahmed and a private housing society. The amount was used to purchase properties in a posh locality of Karachi, it said.
Former president Zardari owns these properties.
Mushtaq was an employee of the President House from 2009 to 2013. He was recruited as steno typist on the request of Senator Rukhsana Bangash.
The former president faces a number of graft reference stemming from the fake bank accounts scam. He is currently on bail in all these cases.
