Islamabad:
A Pakistani courtroom indicted imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan and his spouse on contemporary costs of illegally promoting state items on Thursday, native broadcaster Geo reported.
The indictment was the most recent in dozens of circumstances in opposition to 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 in every of a collection of state treasury costs often called “Toshakhana”.
These costs revolve round allegations that Khan and his spouse illegally procured after which offered items 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 costs 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 items included diamond jewelry and 7 watches, six of them Rolexes – the most costly being valued at 85 million rupees ($305,000).
Earlier this month, Khan was additionally indicted on costs of inciting assaults in opposition to the navy, a case stemming from lethal anti-government rallies led by his celebration 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 navy backers.
Khan has been preventing courtroom circumstances since he was ousted from energy in 2022. He and his celebration say the circumstances have been made as much as hold him out of politics on the behest of the navy after he had fallen out with the military’s generals. The military denies the accusation.
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