Swiss prosecutors formally refuse to reopen 'cleared' Zardari's corruption case

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Swiss prosecutors formally refuse to reopen 'cleared' Zardari's corruption case


slamabad, June 22 (ANI): The Swiss prosecutors have declared Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari 'free of charges' and have refused to reopen a probe into the alleged corruption case involving Zardari and his late wife Benazir Bhutto in 1990.
The prosecutors said that the decision was taken on 4th February this year but made publicly 'official' only now in the light of the street protests in Pakistan, The Dawn reports.
Zardari and Bhutto were alleged to have siphoned 12 million dollars in state cash in 1990s when Zardari served as a government minister and Bhutto was a premier.
The report said that owing to the photographs showing anti-Zardari protestors burning Switzerland's flag at a rally in Pakistan prompted the prosecutors to make the decision.
Additionally, the Swiss prosecutors also pointed that lack of new evidence in the case, which was dropped in 2008 made the authorities unable to reopen the case for investigation.
The Swiss prosecutors further said that since the alleged offense took place more than 15 years earlier meant that the statue of limitations had expired.
They added that just a month after filing renewed request for probe, Pakistan sent them another letter to pay no heed to it as it was linked to domestic politics, thereby abusing the legal system, the report said. (ANI)

Swiss prosecutors formally refuse to reopen 'cleared' Zardari's corruption case

[Karachi]

His and other people's looted billions of dollars benefit Swiss Banks, obviously they wont do anything against them.

Western Governments play a huge role in keeping muslim and third world country leaders corrupt, they basically give them a platform to do their corruption

[Shamlawar Khurasani]

Western Governments play a huge role in keeping muslim and third world country leaders corrupt, they basically give them a platform to do their corruption

True. But we are the ones doing all the corruption. They are just helping us. So just blaming them is not sufficient. We should address our own actions first.

[Karachi]

^ i am not fully blaming them, ofcourse we are the main ones doing evil, it's almost like corruption is the blood of Pakistanis, however these western guys certainly make a profit out of our evil ways

[Admin Khan]

It takes two to tango Karachi, don't forget that.