A special court has condemned This Wednesday, former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan was sentenced to 14 years in prisonand his wife, Bushra Bibi, for not declaring the money obtained from the sale of gifts he received during his term, the second sentence issued this week against the country’s main opposition leader.
“An accountability court sentenced both Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to 14 years in prison,” the spokesman for Khan’s party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Ahmed Janjua, told EFE. This Wednesday’s sentence corresponds to a case known in the country as the Toshakhana case, the name of the government warehouse where gifts received by government officials from foreign officials are kept.
According to the indictment against the political leader and former cricket star, Khan resold several of those gifts without declaring the actual amount received, which belonged to the state coffers. For this reason, both Khan and Bibi “have been disabled for public office for 10 years,” the spokesperson added.
The opposition leader’s party condemned in a statement the decision of this court, based on a “wrong decision” and made “hastily.” “No cross-examinations are allowed, no final argument is concluded, and the decision emerges as a predetermined process in play. This ridiculous decision will also be challenged,” the PTI has asserted.
Among the gifts that Khan and his wife received during their time in the Government, stand out wristwatches, including a Rolex and a Graff, a couple of ornaments, a ring and other luxury items which they never deposited in Toshakhana, according to the records, and which they later sold.
This new condemnation of Khan It adds to another ten-year prison sentence that a special court issued on Tuesday against him and one of his main collaborators, former foreign minister Mahmood Qureshi, for the revelation of private conversations, considered state secrets. However, the Islamabad High Court suspended the sentence in late August, although he was disqualified from holding public office by the Election Commission of Pakistan.
Both sentences occur almost a week after being held the general elections in the country, in which Khan cannot participate after the court’s disqualification order, despite having broad popular support. The former prime minister is currently detained and has more than a hundred cases pending in different courts in the country.
Source: Lasexta

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