The decision comes a day after one other court docket convicted Khan of leaking state secrets and techniques and handed him a 10-year jail sentence.
Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to 14 years in jail in a case associated to the unlawful sale of state items.
An accountability court docket – which hears corruption circumstances – in Rawalpindi additionally dominated on Wednesday that the couple can be ineligible for public workplace for 10 years, whereas additionally imposing a positive of 757 million rupees ($2.7 million).
The sentencing got here a day after Khan a 10 years in jail for revealing state secrets and techniques. It was not instantly clear whether or not the sentences would run consecutively or concurrently.
Khan was given a three-year jail sentence in August for promoting items value greater than 140 million rupees ($501,000) that he acquired whereas he was prime minister from 2018 to April 2022.
Though he was granted bail, he remained in jail and was tried in different circumstances.
The convictions in opposition to maybe Pakistan’s hottest politician got here per week earlier than the February 8 common election.
Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has already been stripped of its election image, with most of its candidates contesting as independents.
PTI official Syed Zulfiqar Bukhari stated the conviction in opposition to Khan was “one other unhappy day in Pakistan’s authorized historical past” and questioned its legitimacy.
“The judiciary is being dismantled. A flawed resolution that was supposed to be stayed by the upper court docket as a result of witnesses appeared to have been clearly compromised,” he advised Al Jazeera.
“Star witnesses have been switched… with no cross-examination allowed, no closing argument concluded, and the choice emerged as a predetermined course of within the sport. This ridiculous resolution can be challenged in increased courts.”