Mysterious shifting of Swiss case documents
Source: Our Monitoring Desk December 2, 2009 Pakistani High Commissioner in the UK, Wajid Shamsul Hasan headed a covert operation in Britain and received at least 12 cartons, comprising original documents and evidence against some Pakistani bigwigs, charged with Swiss money laundering case, reported a private TV channel on Tuesday.
The Prosecutor General of Pakistan in Geneva had deposited the cartons in the era of former President Pervez Musharraf.
The sources said the secret operation was carried out at the bidding of a top personality of Pakistan, as these evidence could be used if Swiss Money Laundering case is reopened following the end of in-famous the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO). The sources in Pakistan embassy said if the officials concerned or the courts do not intervene by taking these evidence back from Wajid, then these documents would be wasted for good.
The secret operation began at 9:00am on Monday when Wajid arrived at Pak High Commission’s car along with NAB’s senior official Danishwar Malik at the office of Prosecutor General in Geneva. According to sources, the Prosecutor General kept refusing to give the documents for some hours, as nobody from Pakistan embassy was formally receiving them.
It is to be noted here that after the promulgation of NRO, these cases were closed. However now when the NRO is died its logical death, the likelihood of reopening of these cases looming large and these evidence could be testimony to the corruption of these bigwigs.
A team of the TV channel secretly filmed the whole episode from an undisclosed location after receiving a tip-off from reliable sources. The sources in Geneva told the channel that Wajid Shamsul Hasan is arriving in Geneva from London, so that these documents could be destroyed or shifted to some safer place. The Pak embassy in Geneva was kept aloof from the operation.
Both Wajid and Danishwar looked perturbed at the presence of reporter there.
When approached for comment, Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said he is absolutely ignorant of any such operation. He, however, asserted that a section of the media is victimising President Asif Ali Zardari with its heinous campaign. The high-ups in Interior Ministry also said they are not abreast of any such report, adding that the matter related to the NAB and the Law Ministry.