ISLAMABAD: An Accountability Court (AC) on Thursday issued an advertisement to summon former president Asif Ali Zardari’s aide Mushtaq Ahmed in a suspect transaction worth Rs 8.3 billion case.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in its comments submitted to the court said the accused had fled from the country and arrest warrants issued for him couldn’t be implemented.
To this, the court instructed to issue an advertisement to summon the accused.
The court directed the accused to surrender till September 9, otherwise he would be declared as absconder. AC-III Judge Syed Asghar Ali heard the case.
It may be mentioned here that the NAB had named Mushtaq Ahmed as a co-accused along with former president Asif Ali Zardari in the case.
The accused was a stenographer in president house. His joint bank account was opened with a local housing society, which was used for transactions of billions of rupees. The money for the purchase of Zardari’s house was also paid from the same account.