Industry: Politics
Asif Zardari dubbed "Mr 10%" an
unknown
happy-go-lucky son of a small-time businessman who
struck gold by
marrying one of the worlds most glamorous women Former
Prime Minister
of Pakistan Benzair Bhutto. Taking advantage of his
wife's authority
he is known to have taken kickbacks from many deals
inside and outside
of Pakistan . The most famous was a $4 billion deal
to buy 32 Mirage
jets from the French company Dassault. Documents,
which include
letters from Dassault executives, indicate an agreement
was reached to
pay a 5% "remuneration" - about
$200m - to Marleton Business, a BVI
company controlled by Zardari. Besides these many
more kickback deals
were taken with companies such as ARY Gold, Société
Général de
Surveillance (SGS), Cotecna, and ZPC Ursus, a Polish
tractor company.
Zardari assets holding amount into hundreds of millions
of dollars
easily, Having 8 prime properties in the UK, of which
once is the
famous Rockwood Estate 365 acres in Surrey, worth
£4.35m has now been
sold and money sent back to the Govt. of Pakistan.
Also 14
multi-million dollar mansions in the USA, including
owning Holiday Inn
hotel Houston, Texas Owned by "Mr 10%"
and Iqbal Memon and
Sadar-ud-Din Hashwani. They (Zardari and B.Bhutto)
also have huge
business ventures in the Middle East running into
hundreds of millions
if not billion mark. Mr Zardari also has huge stakes
in sugar mills
all over Pakistan ,which include: Sakrand Sugar Mills,
Nawabshah,
Ansari Sugar Mills, Hyderabad , Mirza Sugar Mills,
Badin, Pangrio
Sugar Mills, Thatta and Bachani Sugar Mills, Sanghar.
