A group of men hurled disreputable slogans at Bushra Bibi, wife of former premier Imran Khan, as she reached Adiala jail on Monday for the hearing of the £190 million settlement case.
The miscreants intercepted her vehicle and chanted "black magic unacceptable". The police officers were reportedly silent spectators to the sloganeering, that went on till she went inside the jail.
The wife of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief was expected at the jail today for the hearing of her interim bail request in the £190 million settlement case.
At the last hearing the court remanded Imran — who is already in prison — to National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) custody concerning the graft investigation. NAB was instructed to present its report in court by today.
On Sunday, a NAB team conducted continuous interrogation sessions of the PTI chairman at the Adiala Jail for 13 hours – 9:30am till 10:45pm. The NAB team completed the investigation against the PTI chairman.
Today, an accountability court in Islamabad rejected NAB's request for extending former prime minister Imran Khan’s physical remand in the case.
The court instead, sent the PTI chairman on a 14-day judicial remand.
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The settlement case
The £190 million (approximately Rs60 billion) settlement case pertains to the money of a property tycoon being laundered and caught by the UK authorities during Imran's government in 2019. The UK government had informed the Pakistani authorities regarding the money being caught.
The May 9 arrest of the ex-prime minister came in this case for the first time.
Addressing a press conference regarding Imran's arrest in the case at the time, then interior minister Rana Sanaullah said that as per law, the amount belonged to the Pakistani nation and should have been deposited in the national exchequer. “Instead [the then adviser to the prime minister] Shahzad Akbar acting as a front-man, formed the Al-Qadir Trust under a deal executed by him,” he claimed.
The minister said some 458-kanal of land in Sohawa and another 240-kanal in Bani Gala were registered in the name of Al-Qadir Trust.
Sanaullah said some seven to eight months ago, he had provided details of the two properties and had challenged the PTI chief to clarify if Al-Qadir Trust was not established by Imran himself to hide his corruption.
He further said the PTI chief and his wife Bushra Bibi were the only two trustees of the trust.
He said the 240-kanal of land in Bani Gala, worth around Rs5-7 billion, was registered in the name of Farah Gogi, a close friend of Imran Khan's wife, while Akbar had also taken Rs2 billion for his services.
He said instead of depositing Rs60 billion into the national treasury, the amount landed in the bank account of the Supreme Court, where the accused property tycoon was under trial. The amount was, in fact, returned to the accused in a complex manner to hoodwink the masses, he added.
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