Diamond necklace exposed Benazir Bhutto money-laundering trail Details emerged of how a £117,000 diamond necklace led to the Benazir Bhutto and Asif Zardari being convicted of money laundering by a Swiss court. The pair were given suspended jail sentences of six months each and ordered to repay about £8m to the Pakistani government. The Swiss investigating magistrate found that during her second term as PM she enriched herself or her husband with kickbacks from a government contract with two Swiss companies. “There is no doubt that the behaviour of Benazir Bhutto and her husband is criminally reprehensible in Pakistan,” the magistrate, Daniel Devaud wrote in his sentencing order after the five-year investigation.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 12:53:06 +0000