Court unfreeze bank accounts of Talpur’s kids

Rejects request to unfreeze her bank account to facilitate her day to day financial affairs

ISLAMABAD: An accountability court in the federal capital on Tuesday rejected the PPP leader Faryal Talpur’s request to unfreeze her bank account to facilitate her day to day financial affairs. However, the court unblocked the bank accounts of her children.
Talpur, a lawmaker and sister of the PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, is among the key accused in a multi-billion rupees money laundering case.
She was arrested in June last year by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) along with Zardari and remained incarcerated till Dec 2019 when she was granted bail.
The accountability watchdog had also seized bank accounts of the accused, who later requested the court to unfreeze the accounts, citing difficulties in paying her children’s expenses.
In the last hearing, the Accountability Court II Judge Azam Khan had reserved his order on the request. The order was unveiled on Tuesday. According to the order, the court rejected Talpur’s request to unblock her accounts but ordered authorities to unfreeze accounts in the name of her children.