Dawood Ahmed:
ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, were convicted on Friday in the £190 million Al-Qadir Trust case. Imran Khan received a 14-year prison sentence, while Bushra Bibi was handed a seven-year term.
The verdict, announced by Judge Nasir Javed Rana at a makeshift courtroom inside Adiala Jail, also imposed fines of Rs1 million on Imran Khan and Rs500,000 on Bushra Bibi. Failure to pay these fines would result in an additional six months and three months of imprisonment, respectively.
The court ordered the forfeiture of the “Al-Qadir University Project Trust” property to the federal government under Section 10(a) of the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999.
“Both convicts are present before the court and are to be taken into custody immediately. They are to be handed over to the Superintendent Jail with the necessary committal warrants to serve their sentences,” the court stated in its ruling.
The announcement, delayed three times earlier, marks a significant development in the case involving alleged misuse of public funds and trust property.
