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The Swiss prosecutor general told the British Broadcasting Corporation on Friday that the money would neither be given to Bhutto and her husband nor to the Pakistan government, since it was not a representative or an elected government.
'Moreover, this regime had relations with the Taleban in Afghanistan, which demolished the Buddha statues.''
He said he would therefore oppose transfer of this money to the Pakistan government.
The BBC said there were cases when the Swiss government had seized the money if it was found to be ill-gotten, while in other cases, the money was used to pay off debts of the country, whose leader had stashed it away in Swiss bank accounts.
It is reported that Benazir and her husband had put about 1200 million dollars in Swiss bank accounts when she was prime minister. In November 1996 her government was sacked by the then president Farooq Leghari on charges of corruption and inefficiency.
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