2 Baighai.at Khandan .. ek ka dead bodies ka business hai jo wo last 20 years sai karrahay and ek khandan apna ra.di rona nai chorta hamain hamesha nikal daitay hai .. wtf
Details emerged yesterday of how a £117,000 diamond necklace led to the former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and her husband being convicted of money laundering by a Swiss court last week.The pair were given suspended jail sentences of six months each and ordered to repay about £8m to the Pakistani government.
Although Ms Bhutto continues to deny the charges and says she intends to appeal, the Swiss investigating magistrate found that during her second term as prime minister she enriched herself or her husband with kickbacks from a government contract with two Swiss companies.
"There is no doubt that the behaviour of Benazir Bhutto and her husband is criminally reprehensible in Pakistan," the magistrate, Daniel Devaud wrote in his sentencing order after the five-year investigation.
The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, says that in 1995 the two companies, SGS and Cotecna, took up a contract for customs inspection of goods being imported into Pakistan.
The judge cited letters showing that 6% of the amount paid by the Pakistani government under the inspection contract would be paid as commission to companies registered in the British Virgin Islands.
One of these, Bomer Finances Inc, received $8.2m and another, Nassam Overseas Inc, received $3.8m, the judge found.
The beneficial owner of Bomer Finance is Ms Bhutto's husband, Asif Ali Zardari, but in reality she shares the assets with him and has the power of disposition, the judge said.
The beneficial owner of Nassam Overseas is Nasir Hussain, who at the time was Ms Bhutto's brother-in-law, he added.
Evidence of Ms Bhutto's role in Bomer Finance emerged from a visit to London during which she bought a diamond necklace at a Knightsbridge jeweller's.
The £117,000 bill was paid partly in cash and partly with money from Bomer Finance's account.
It was the only withdrawal made from the company's account before its assets were frozen at the request of the Pakistani authorities.
The necklace was later found in a Swiss bank vault, and was also seized.
Under the judge's ruling it must now be handed over to the Pakistani state.
Zardari is currently in jail in Pakistan, where he is serving a seven-year sentence for corruption.
He has also been implicated in 14 other pending criminal cases.
Ms Bhutto lives in exile, mainly in Britain and Dubai.
Jeremy Carver, a lawyer who represented the Pakistani government five years ago in relation to Ms Bhutto, said yesterday that there were "at least half a dozen international cases at various stages in various pipelines, either in Pakistan, Switzerland or the United States".
Ms Bhutto's Rockwood estate at Brooke in Surrey, valued at £3.5m, is currently being sold by the Pakistani government.
She is believed to own four other properties in London.