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CORRUPTION: Ex-Pakistan PM, daughter jailed

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CORRUPTION: Ex-Pakistan PM, daughter jailed

The anti-corruption war in Pakistan is now gathering steam with two big personalities bagging jail sentences for graft.

Hours ago, an anti-corruption court found former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif guilty of corruption and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.

The former Prime Minister whose daughter was also handed a seven-year jail term for the same crime was also ordered by the anti-corruption court to pay a $10.5m fine- a development that could be a blow to his PML-N party’s chances in an upcoming general election.

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Reports say the case which landed Sharif in jail relates to the ownership of four apartments in the upmarket Park Lane neighbourhood of London, capital of the United Kingdom.

“Today, the anti-corruption court’s verdict … has made it clear that these assets, the Avenfield apartments, were acquired through corrupt means,” prosecutor Sardar Muzaffar Abbasi told reporters outside the courtroom.

Reacting after the court verdict, a defiant Sharif told reporters in London that he had not been given a fair trial and that he would face his sentence.

 

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