Bhutto Doesn’t Have to Return Cash, Court Says
A Swiss court overturned a ruling ordering former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to return $11 million allegedly obtained through kickbacks and other illegal means, her spokesman said.
It also dismissed Bhutto’s six-month suspended sentence, he said. Bhutto’s lawyer in Geneva said the court ruled that the evidence was insufficient. Bhutto and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, were convicted in July of laundering money through Swiss bank accounts while she was prime minister from 1993 to 1996. The two deny that any of the money was obtained illegally.
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