Benazir Bhutto Castle of Corruption đŸ–‡ïžđŸ“Ž
It's not surprising to see how smartly our Desi intellectuals are distorting history, presenting Benazir as a champion of Human rights & Democracy. I won't be talking about her feudalistic & Nepoistic rise to Power.I will shed light (1/9)
on how prominentđŸ‡”đŸ‡° was in the Int Media thanks to Benazir Bhutto efforts, won't share a single reference from Pakistan.
In 2003, Benazir & Zardari were convicted by a Swiss court in money-laundering, were given a six- month suspended sentence & fine of $50,000.(Gulf News)(2/9)
It is an interesting story, how a diamond necklace worth £117,000 from Knightsbridge Jewellers exposed Benazir’s money laundering trial(Guardian)
During her second term (1993-96), two Swiss companies, SGS & Cotechna paid millions of dollars in kickbacks to Bhutto & Zardari. (3/9)
Money was paid via two offshore companies British Virgin Islands—Bomer Finances owned by Asif Zardari received $ 8.2 million.
- Nassim Overseas, owned by Nasir Husain, Benazir’s brother-in-law received $3.8 million. (4/9)
"In 1994 and 1995, he used a Swiss bank account and an American Express card to buy jewelry worth $660,000 -- including $246,000 at Cartier Inc. and Bulgari Corp. in Beverly Hills, Calif., in barely a month."Investigative journalist John F Burns, New York Times (5/9)
In 1996, Zardari purchased a neo-Tudor mansion and estate (355-acre) worth $4 million in Surrey, UK (Sunday Times).
For this outstanding performance for Ghareeb Awam, In 1996, Transparency International ranked Pakistan as the world’s second most corrupt country. (6/9)
In 1997, the Polish govt handed over 500 pages of detailed documents relating to corruption in an 8,000 tractor deal, taking $2 million in kickbacks. From "Karachi
Affairs" to Panama Affairs" the story of her success speaks for her legacy. Can't even enlist all of that but (7/9)
For the reference named few, Later on, in 2014 Switzerland’s Federal Court dismissed appeals for recovery of Benazir Bhutto’s diamond jewelry paid for by Asif Zardari’s offshore companies.
A woman being the symbol of Liberalism, a resistance against Islamists this what she (8/9)
sold to the West. Considering her portfolio, she would have been the biggest Beneficiary of this US-AID "Gender & Democracy" Program recently mentioned by Trump.
Her efforts for Democracy were as cool as her efforts to uplift the Poor people ofđŸ‡”đŸ‡°
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