KARACHI: Senate Chairman Yousuf Raza Gilani was cleared by an anti-corruption court on Friday of all charges related to the multibillion-rupee Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) scam.
Gilani, the prime minister of the country from 2008 to 2012, personally attended the hearing at the Federal Anti-Corruption Court in Karachi.
In more than two dozen cases, Gilani, former TDAP chairman Tariq Iqbal Puri, former director general Abdul Karim Daudpota, and others were charged with allegedly approving and disbursing freight subsidies totaling billions of rupees to different companies through false claims, in violation of the scheme’s established protocol.
Gilani, Daudpota, Farooq Awan Puri, Muhammad Zubair, and about 20 other people were formally charged in 2018.
