Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, incarcerated since August, was charged on Monday October 23 with “disclosure of classified documents”, announced prosecutor Shah Khawar of the Federal Investigation Agency. The latter spoke outside Adiala prison in the Rawalpindi district, south of the capital Islamabad, where Mr. Khan is detained.
Having become an opposition figure, the former head of the Pakistani government has already been sentenced on Saturday August 5 to three years in prison for corruption. The Islamabad court found him guilty of hiding “the profits he took from the public treasury in a deliberate and intentional manner”.
The electoral commission began investigating this so-called “Toshakhana” affair in October 2022. The politician and former cricket champion is suspected of having bought back gifts received when he was in power and whose value he underestimated. value, before reselling them at a high price for an undeclared profit.
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