PPP denies accounts report

Published November 8, 2001

ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: Swiss Law firm Messers Poncet and Associates representing the three Swiss companies under investigation has denied that the frozen bank accounts belonged to Ms Benazir Bhutto, a PPP press release claimed on Wednesday.

The press release said Messers Poncet and Associates were defence lawyers to the three Swiss companies whose bank accounts had been frozen, which the government of Pakistan had alleged were tied to Ms Bhutto.

“To the best of my knowledge these accounts do not concern her (Benazir Bhutto),” the press release quoted the legal firm as saying in response to a query.

Ms Bhutto has repeatedly denied that she had anything to do with the companies or their accounts.

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