Really explains exactly why you have resorted to practical slavery of the Royal family of PPP. The whole forum can understand what exactly I am pointing towards from the links.. while you are unable to figure out.
Okay.. leave the complicated allegations like living-possessing assets beyond your means and using special vehicles to receive and launder illegal money.. Please answer-defend only one allegation which is a little simpler for you to understand probably.
Allegation: The Royal family of PPP denied the possession of Surrey Palace for a long time in Pakistan’s parliaments. They did not declare the asset in the declarations when they became the members of the parliament. Being official Resident Pakistanis they were obliged legally to declare this asset in their wealth statements, and they were supposed to tell exactly what was the source of income from which they could buy such an expensive property. These mis declarations are proven by news reports from that period. These media news items conclusively prove these mis declarations.
- News item from the period when the Royal couple used to deny the ownership:
BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | ‘Surrey Palace’ saga for Benazir
- News item from the period when they claimed the property and accepted the ownership in a British court:
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
Bhutto’s husband now admits owning £4m estate | UK news | The Guardian
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Brian Whitaker
The Guardian, Saturday 21 August 2004 01.15 BST
The jailed husband of the former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto has admitted owning a £4.35m estate in Surrey which the Pakistani authorities say was bought with the proceeds of corruption.
Asif Zardari, who was the investment minister in his wife’s government and acquired the nickname Mr Ten Per Cent, had previously denied any connection with Rockwood Estate, which includes a 20-room mansion and two farms on 365 acres of land.
The property was sold by a liquidator last month and the effect of Mr Zardari’s sudden U-turn is to block - at least for the time being - efforts by Pakistan to collect its share of the proceeds.
According to the Pakistani government, Mr Zardari and/or Ms Bhutto bought Rockwood Estate in 1995 during her second term as prime minister and disguised the ownership through three companies registered in the Isle of Man, which in turn were owned by trusts.
**When newspaper reports first linked Ms Bhutto and her husband with the property, they both issued denials.
Mr Zardari said indignantly: “How can anyone think of buying a mansion in England when people in Pakistan don’t even have a roof over their heads?”** Ms Bhutto continues to deny her involvement.
Soon after the purchase of the estate, an extravagant refurbishment programme began, during which Paul Keating, a builder who worked on the project, met Mr Zardari several times and received instructions from him.
During one visit to Rockwood, Mr Zardari called at the village pub, the Dog and Pheasant, and liked it so much that he offered to buy it. When told that it was not for sale, he asked Mr Keating to build a replica of its bar in the basement of his mansion.
While Mr Keating was working at Rockwood, crates of artefacts weighing 7.5 tonnes arrived by air from Pakistan. They contained 14 antique rifles, 19 bundles of carpets, furniture - including a nine-metre (30ft) cut glass Italian table - a stuffed tiger, wood carvings, statues, and 16 oil paintings. Some of the rifles were engraved with Mr Zardari’s name.
Building work continued through the spring and summer of 1996. There were plans for a helipad, a nine-hole golf course, an extension to the indoor swimming pool and a paddock for the polo ponies.
The bathrooms were decorated with marble, doors were covered in copper and the master bedroom was reinforced with girders to protect it against bombs.
In November 1996, after three years in power, Ms Bhutto’s government was dismissed by the Pakistani president for “corruption, misrule and nepotism”.
One of several accusations against her and her husband is that they took illegal commissions from companies carrying out customs inspections of goods being imported into Pakistan. According to documents cited in a Swiss court last year, commissions totalling $8.2m (£4.5m) were paid to Bomer Finance Inc, a company registered in the British Virgin Islands.
Although Mr Zardari was described as the beneficial owner of Bomer Finance, the court heard that Ms Bhutto had been the only person to make use of its funds before they were frozen at the request of the Pakistani authorities. She allegedly bought a £117,000 diamond necklace from a Knightsbridge jeweller with money from Bomer.
She and her husband dispute these charges and the Swiss case is continuing.
Refurbishment at Rockwood stopped abruptly about the time Ms Bhutto fell from power. Mr Keating refused to budge from the estate, claiming non-payment for work he had done. He eventually left last month after it was bought by a local businessman.
He told the Guardian that he had received a cheque for £500,000, with a promise of £150,000 to come.
Towards the end of last year a liquidator for the three Manx companies (Romina Properties, Winkford Farm and Parsonage Farm) reached a compromise with various claimants for disposing of the proceeds of the Rockwood sale. After paying creditors, the remaining money - believed to be most of the £4.35m sale price - would go to the Pakistani government.
The deal needed approval from a Manx court and when the case came up before Deemster (Judge) Kerruish last Monday, a lawyer representing Mr Zardari objected.
He told the court Mr Zardari, who is serving a jail sentence in Pakistan for corruption, was the beneficial owner of Rockwood Estate and was willing to pay off some of the creditors. He asked for eight weeks to provide evidence of Mr Zardari’s ownership.
The judge adjourned the case until December 20.
Please defend your position specifically on this single issue instead of making irrelevant excuses like typical jahil jiyalas..