Al-Qadir Trust case: Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan, wife's pre-arrest bail approved until July 4
File photo of former Pakistan PM Imran Khan.
Former Pakistan prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)chairperson Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi's pre-arrest bail in the Al-Qadir Trust case has been approved until July 4. The bail wasapproved by the accountability court on Monday (June 19). Earlier, Khan's bail in the case was extended till Monday against surety bonds of Rs 500,000 (Pakistan Rupee) ($1742).
The bail also comes days after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) summoned Bushra Bibi in the case. Initially, Bibi was summoned by the NAB's Combined Investigation Team (CIT) as a witness, being a trustee of the Al-Qadir University Trust, on June 7. However, she sought a day's extension with her husband. The CIT then directed her to appear before the investigators on June 13.
What is the Al-Qadir Trust case?
The case alleges that Khan and Bibi obtained land worth billions of rupees for their trust from a major property tycoon in Pakistan to build an educational institute. According to a report by Al-Jazeera last month, the NAB alleged that the previous PTI government under Khan's leadership struck a deal with property tycoon Malik Riaz that caused a loss of over $239 million to the national exchequer.
In 2019,Riaz agreed to hand over assets, including properties worth $239 million, to United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency in a proberelated to “dirty money".
In May this year, Imran Khan was arrested in the case but was later granted bail. The NAB had said that the former prime minister was arrested for the crime of corruption in the trust.
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Pakistan's Interior MinisterRana Sanaullah Khan, meanwhile, tweeted that Khan did not appear in the case despite notices.
Imran Khan is currently facing over 150 cases registered against him since being oustedin April last year. He was granted bail till Monday in eight cases registered against him. Out of these eight cases, Khan's bail was confirmed in five and the former prime minister got pre-arrest bail in three cases, including the Al-Qadir Trust case.
On Sunday, Khan said the ruling government still planned to detain him to quash his momentum ahead of the elections which are due by October."They believe that people will sit as silent spectators when they put me in jail," he said.
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