The verdict of the £190 million case against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan will be announced on January 13, an Islamabad’s accountability court staff confirmed on Monday.
Noting that Judge Nasir Javed Rana was on leave, the court staff said that the decision of the deferment of the verdict has been communicated to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) prosecutor as well as the PTI’s lawyer.
This is the second time that the verdict — reserved on December 18 — in the said case, also known as Also known as the Al-Qadir Trust case, has been deferred as it was previously scheduled to be announced on December 23 had was then delayed by the court.
The former prime minister along with his wife, Bushra and others have been accused by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) of causing a loss of £190 million to the national exchequer via a settlement between the PTI government and a property tycoon.
The said case is part of the plethora of legal challenges faced by the incarcerated PTI founder who has been behind bars since August last year after he was sentenced in Toshakhana case-I.
