Spanish court drops graft case against Benazir
Tuesday 4th December, 2007 (IANS)
A Spanish court has dropped money-laundering investigation against Pakistan's former premier Benazir Bhutto citing lack of evidence.
Bhutto, who returned home Oct 18 after eight years of self-exile, her husband Asif Ali Zardari and several others were being investigated after suspicions were raised by foreign currency operations at a bank in the eastern Spanish town of Onteniente and the purchase of a house in Spain.
But Joaquin Banos, spokesman for the prosecutor's office at the Superior Court in the eastern region of Valencia, Monday said prosecutors were unable to find sufficient evidence of wrongdoing during more than two years of investigations, the Daily Times reported Tuesday.
Banos said the case became unsustainable after the Pakistani government of President Pervez Musharraf, which took part in the prosecution, decided not to proceed with it earlier this year.
Bhutto has also been under investigation for corruption and money laundering in Pakistan and Switzerland.
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