A competent court on Friday sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan to 14 years in prison and his wife Bushra Bibi to seven years in a land corruption case, his legal team said.
The verdict in the case, the biggest in terms of financial wrongdoing Khan faces, was handed down by an anti-graft court in a prison in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where Khan has been imprisoned since August 2023.
Here are some of the allegations against the 72-year-old former cricket star named in dozens of cases since he was ousted from office in 2022, which has kept him behind bars for more than a year.
GRAVES
On Friday, Khan was convicted on charges that he and his wife were gifted land by a property developer during his premiership from 2018 to 2022 in exchange for illegal favors.
He was first arrested in May 2023 in this case, over allegations that the couple received land worth up to 7 billion rupees ($25.12 million) as bribes through a trust set up in 2018.
His party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has maintained that the land was donated for charitable purposes.
Bibi was remanded in custody on Friday after being released on bail in October in another case.
STATE GIFTS
Khan was arrested in August 2023 for allegedly selling gifts worth more than 140 million rupees that he received during his premiership and which belonged to the state. Khan and Bibi were indicted on new charges in December after being convicted in two other versions of the case, although the sentences have been suspended. The couple have denied wrongdoing.
DEVELOPMENT OF VIOLENCE
Khan faces counter-terrorism charges in connection with the violence that followed his arrest in May 2023, for which several of his supporters have already been convicted.
He was indicted in December and is on trial.
STATE SECRETS
Khan was accused of publishing a secret cable sent to Islamabad by Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington in 2022 while still in office. He was acquitted in the case in June.
ILLEGAL MARRIAGE
Khan and his wife were accused of breaking Islamic law by failing to observe the mandated waiting period between Bibi’s divorce from her ex-husband and their marriage in 2018. They were acquitted of the charges in July.
