\u2022 Judge finds ex-PM, his wife guilty of corrupt practices in long-awaited verdict of \u00a3190 million Al-Qadir Trust case
\n\u2022 PTI founder gets 14, Bushra 7 years under NAB law as court finds \u2018no mitigating circumstances\u2019
\n\u2022 Al-Qadir University property forfeited to federal govt<\/p>\n
ISLAMABAD: After multiple delays and postponements, an accountability court in the capital finally convicted former prime minister Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi in the \u00a3190 million Al-Qadir Trust corruption case, sentencing both to prison.<\/p>\n
The verdict, announced by Judge Nasir Javed Rana in the makeshift courtroom at Adiala Jail on Friday, marks the first conviction for the former PM and PTI founder in a corruption matter, as his earlier convictions in the cipher, iddat and Toshakhana cases did not involve allegations of corruption.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe accused Imran Ahmed Khan is hereby held guilty for commission of offence of corruption and corrupt practices as defined under section 9\u2026 of the National Accountability Ordi\u00adnance\u2026 He is hereby convicted. There is no mitigating circumstances (sic). He is sentenced under section 10 (a) of the NAO to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 14 years,\u201d the verdict said.<\/p>\n
The judge also imposed Rs1 million fine on Mr Khan, and sentenced his wife Bushra Bibi to seven years rigorous imprisonment along with a fine of Rs500,000.<\/p>\n
In case they were unable to pay the fine, the court warned them of another six and 3 months in prison, respectively.<\/p>\n
As per the verdict, the \u201cproperty of the sham\u2026 Al-Qadir University Project Trust\u201d is hereby forfeited to the federal government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2022 Judge finds ex-PM, his wife guilty of corrupt practices in long-awaited verdict of \u00a3190 million Al-Qadir Trust case \u2022 PTI founder gets 14, Bushra 7 years under NAB law as court finds \u2018no mitigating circumstances\u2019 \u2022 Al-Qadir University property forfeited to federal govt ISLAMABAD: After multiple delays and postponements, an accountability court in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4814,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions\/4814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}