Benazir faces fresh Swiss questioning

By Afp, Geneva
Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto faced a new round of questioning yesterday by a Swiss magistrate who is investigating claims that she laundered millions of dollars in bribes.

"It's just a routine hearing," said Benazir Bhutto's lawyer Alec Reymond before the meeting with investigating magistrate Vincent Fournier in Geneva, adding that there had been no new developments in the case.

Benazir has been under investigation in Switzerland since 1997.

She was formally charged in 2004 over the alleged money-laundering through Swiss bank accounts of 11.7 million dollars in purported bribes paid by companies seeking customs inspection contracts.