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Corruption cases against Pak PM's wife withdrawn | The corruption cases filed against Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's wife have been withdrawn.
Fouzia Yousuf Gilani and five others were accused of obtaining two loans from
the Agricultural Development Bank for their companies in the late 1980s and not
returning the money, The Dawn reports. But the National Accountability Bureau
which had filed the cases against Gilani, Syeda Samina Abrar, Anwar Nasreen, Ziaur
Rehman, Khalid Hussain and Nasreen Munawar Chaudhry in 2000 told the court that
the matter has been settled and charges withdrawn. According to the prosecution,
the accused, who were directors of the Pakistan Green Fertiliser, had obtained
a loan of 71.163 million rupees from the ADBP in November 1987 and not returned
the amount after which the National Accountability Bureau had filed a reference
against them. The second reference pertained to a loan of 100 million rupees taken
from the bank in July 1989 for the Multan Edible Oil Extraction Company. The court
had dismissed applications for acquittal in July. The MD of the firms, Munawar
Hussain Sindhu, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on March 10, 2001, while
Gilani and others were awarded three-year terms in absentia for failing to appear
before the court. |
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