Zardari set to get 3 million pounds richer from sale proceeds of Surrey Palace
London, Sept 22 (ANI): Only a few legal formalities are left after which newly?elected
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari would pocket nearly three million pounds from the
Pakistani exchequer, the sale proceeds of Surrey Palace the Rockwood House ? which
was sold through a liquidator in 2004 after Zardari and his slain spouse Benazir Bhutto
were found guilty of corruption.
The total worth of the mansion today is estimated to be around 8.5 million pounds. That
sum (three million pounds) will add the fortune of Zardari, who had only last month
received 32 million pounds in frozen assets released to him by the Swiss authorities,
after Geneva prosecutors dropped the money?laundering investigation against Zardari at
the request of the PPP?led alliance government.
For more than 10 years, the mansion has been the symbol of corruption charges being
leveled against Zardari and his wife Benazir.
Spread over an area of 335 acres, the Palace was bought opaquely by the Bhutto?Zardari
family in 1995 for 2.5 million pounds during Bhutto
