Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi.
Islamabad: Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan’s troubles have increased again. A Pakistani court has sentenced Imran Khan to 14 years in prison in a corruption-related case. A Pakistani court on Friday sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 14 years in prison and his wife Bushra Bibi to 7 years in prison in a land corruption case, local broadcaster ARY News reported.
A Pakistani court on Friday found former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi guilty of corruption in the £190 million Al-Qadir Trust case and sentenced them to 14 and seven years in prison, respectively, AP reported. Anti-corruption court judge Nasir Javed Rana had last announced the decision on January 13, which had been postponed thrice due to different reasons. The judge delivered the verdict in a makeshift court set up in Adila jail.
The case was registered in 2023
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had filed a case against Khan, 72, Bushra Bibi, 50, and six others in December 2023, accusing them of causing a loss of 190 million pounds (PR 50 billion) to the national exchequer. Had gone. But Imran Khan and his wife were prosecuted because all the other accused, including a property businessman, were out of the country.
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