A Pakistani courtroom indicted imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan and his spouse on recent prices of illegally promoting state presents on Thursday, native broadcaster Geo reported.
The indictment was the most recent in dozens of circumstances towards the 72-year-old former cricket star, who has been in jail since late final yr.
Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi have already been granted bail within the case, which is one among a sequence of state treasury prices generally known as “Toshakhana”.
These prices revolve round allegations that Khan and his spouse illegally procured after which offered presents price greater than 140 million rupees ($501,000) in state possession, which he obtained throughout his 2018-22 premiership. They’ve denied committing an offence.
Khan and Bibi have been each handed a 14-year sentence on these prices days earlier than a nationwide election earlier this yr, following a three-year sentence handed to him in late 2023 in one other model of the identical case.
Nevertheless, their sentences have been suspended in appeals on the excessive courtroom.
The presents included diamond jewelry and 7 watches, six of them Rolexes – the costliest being valued at 85 million rupees ($305,000).
Earlier this month, Khan was additionally indicted on prices of inciting assaults towards the army, a case stemming from lethal anti-government rallies led by his get together final yr.
Bibi additionally led a lethal protest march by hundreds of supporters within the capital Islamabad on Nov. 25, escalating a face-off with the federal government and its army backers.
Khan has been combating courtroom circumstances since he was ousted from energy in 2022. He and his get together say the circumstances have been made as much as hold him out of politics on the behest of the army after he had fallen out with the military’s generals. The military denies the accusation.
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