Verdict comes a day after one other courtroom convicted Khan for leaking state secrets and techniques and gave 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 promoting of state items.
An accountability courtroom in Rawalpindi, which offers with corruption circumstances, on Wednesday additionally dominated that the couple can be ineligible to contest for public workplace for 10 years whereas additionally slapping a advantageous of 757 million rupees ($2.7m).
The sentencing got here a day after Khan was given a 10-year jail time period for revealing state secrets and techniques. It was unclear whether or not the sentences have been to run consecutively or concurrently.
Khan was handed a three-year jail sentence in August for promoting items price greater than 140 million rupees ($501,000) he obtained when he was the prime minister from 2018 to April 2022.
Although Khan secured bail, he remained in jail going through trial in different circumstances.
The convictions in opposition to arguably Pakistan’s hottest politician got here a few week earlier than the final elections on February 8.
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 mentioned the sentencing of Khan was “yet one more unhappy day in Pakistan’s judicial historical past” and questioned its legitimacy.
“Judiciary is being dismantled. A flawed resolution meant to be suspended by the upper courtroom, as witnesses clearly appeared compromised,” he advised Al Jazeera.
“Star witnesses have been modified … with no cross-questioning allowed, no closing argument concluded, and the choice pops up like a predetermined course of in play. This ridiculous resolution can be challenged in superior courts.”