Rolex to diamonds: What’s landed Pakistan’s Imran Khan a 14-year jail term?
Al Jazeera
The ex-PM denies he profited from the sale of ‘state gifts’ but prosecution says their value was concealed.
A court in Pakistan has sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to 14 years in prison just a week before general elections, for unlawfully buying and selling state gifts.
The former prime minister and his wife were also fined each 787 million rupees ($2.8m) in a case known as the asset concealment case, or Toshakhana case.
The 71-year-old cricketer-turned-leader was jailed for 10 years for leaking state secrets on Tuesday. The former prime minister has said the cases are politically motivated and aimed at keeping him and his party away from the elections.
So what is the case behind the latest ruling, and what gifts were part of it?
The former prime minister has been accused of misusing his 2018-2022 prime ministership to unlawfully buy and sell gifts kept inside the Toshakhana, or treasure house – a government-owned department.
