 Swiss judicial authorities said on Tuesday they had closed a money-laundering case against Pakistani presidential candidate Asif Ali Zardari and released $60 million frozen in Swiss accounts over the past decade.
| $60 million would cover Rantburg hosting at $100 a month for approximately ... ummm... [carry the 9, divide by the square root of 97... ] 600,000 months. That's 50,000 years, right? |
Daniel Zappelli, Geneva's chief prosecutor, said that he had no evidence to bring Zardari, 55, the widower of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, to trial. Pakistan's government recently dropped out of all related cases it had initiated in Switzerland, saying the couple could not be accused of corruption, he said. Zappelli said the full $60 million in assets, seized at the request of the Pakistan authorities, had been released. | Now if only Mr Zadari could explain the source of this wealth |
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