Zardari was elected president of Pakistan for the second time on March 9.
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The case relies on the allegation that Zardari influenced related authorities throughout his earlier time period because the president – from 2008 to 2013 – to launch loans for his entrance firms
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s counsels on Tuesday invoked presidential immunity for him in a corruption case, generally often known as the Park Lane reference, in which he’s accused of influencing authorities to launch loans to entrance firms.
Judge Nasir Javed Rana of an Islamabad-based accountability court docket presided over the listening to in the Park Lane case.
The case relies on the allegation that Zardari influenced related authorities throughout his earlier time period because the president – from 2008 to 2013 – to launch loans for his entrance firms.
During the listening to, Zardari’s attorneys contended that after turning into the president, he loved presidential immunity in opposition to court docket circumstances, and any proceedings in opposition to him couldn’t proceed.
Zardari was elected president of Pakistan for the second time on March 9.
Zardari, 68, his sister and a number of other of their alleged enterprise associates have been being probed as a part of the 2015 case involving faux accounts and fictitious transactions.
On being requested by the court docket if the case might progress in opposition to the co-accused, the attorneys responded affirmatively that authorized motion might proceed in opposition to the remaining defendants.
The court docket adjourned the listening to until April 17.
The case relies on the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) declare that Zardari obtained a mortgage of Rs 1.5 billion launched for his entrance firm, Parthenon Private Limited, and the cash was later transferred for his private use by way of faux financial institution accounts.
The NAB accused the president of inflicting the nationwide exchequer a lack of Rs 3.77 billion.
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