The judge read out the chargesheet in the presence of Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi in the court.
Islamabad:
Pakistan’s accountability court on Tuesday indicted jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the £190m Qadir corruption case.
Justice Nasir Javed Rana presided over the hearing at Rawalpindi’s high-security Adiala jail, where the 72-year-old founder of Pakistan’s Tehreek-Insaf is currently being held in connection with multiple cases. prison.
The judge read out the charge sheet with Khan and Bushra present in the courtroom.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has launched an investigation into Khan, his wife and others over allegations they acquired hundreds of canals of land in the name of the Al Qadir University Trust, resulting in a reported loss of £190m to the exchequer.
According to “Geo News”, during the hearing, the court stated that it would record the testimony of 58 witnesses in the case.
The judge asked Khan if he was guilty when charging him.
“Why should I read the charge sheet when I know what is written on it?” Khan replied.
Both Khan and his wife subsequently denied the charges against them.
The hearing was postponed to March 6 and the court also ordered five NAB witnesses to attend the hearing.
Bushra, 49, was held at Khan’s Bani Gala residence in Islamabad after an accountability court sentenced the couple to 14 years in prison in the Toshakhana corruption case.
Al-Qadir Trust case involves £190m settlement, which UK National Crime Agency has sent after recovering the money from Pakistani property tycoon Malik Riaz Hussain to Pakistan.
As the then prime minister, Khan did not deposit the money into the state treasury but allowed the businessman to use the money to partially repay a fine of around 45,000 rupees levied by the Supreme Court several years ago.
In return, the tycoon allegedly gifted around 57 acres of land to a trust set up by Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi for the establishment of Qadir University in the Sohawar area of Punjab’s Jhelum district.
Hussain, his son Ahmed Ali Riaz, Mirza Shehzad Akbar and Zulfi Bukhari were also among the suspects in the case, but they did not participate investigation and subsequent court proceedings, but absconded and was subsequently declared a criminal.
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