National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday invited PML-N spokesperson, Siddiqul Farooq, to come up with 'evidence' regarding his allegations that the record of corruption cases against PPP leadership for holding inquiry had gone missing.
Brushing aside the allegations of tampering the record of any corruption, including Swiss money-laundering case against Asif Ali Zardari, a statement issued by the NAB said, "Files of all cases are fully secured, and there is no question of files' misplacement from NAB Headquarters."
PML-N spokesperson Siddiqul Farooq had alleged that some 200 files, containing all paper record of corruption investigation of top Pakistan People's Party leadership, had gone missing from the NAB secretariat. In addition, Farooq had said that 'President Asif Ali Zardari intends to keep NAB hostage through a handpicked chairman to erase the evidence of his corruption'.
"NAB would appreciate if Siddiquul Farooq provides an iota of credible evidence to enable the Bureau to conduct inquiry of the so called story of the missing files," the NAB statement added. President Asif Ali Zardari and Benazir Bhutto were convicted by a Swiss court in a $15 million money-laundering case in 2003. However, charges were denied by them. In August 2008, after the promulgation of National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), Swiss judicial authorities, acting on the request of Pakistan government, closed the money-laundering case against President Zardari and released $60 million frozen for decades in Swiss accounts.
The spokesperson for NAB categorically denied the allegation made by the PML-N spokesman, saying that such fabricated and baseless statements are unfortunately released to 'create sensation' for unknown purposes. Highlighting a well-developed security system, the NAB spokesperson said, the record of SGS & Cotecna cases is lying with the Accountability Courts, besides the High Courts and the Apex Court as well as with the concerned prosecutors since 1997.