May 5. (EUROPE PRESS) –
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Jan will be charged on May 10 for illicit enrichment by allegedly hiding some of the gifts he received during his time at the helm of the Government from 2018 until his dismissal in 2022, when an all-out battle began between the former president and the authorities that now govern the country.
The announcement, reports GEO TV, has been made by the judge of the Court of Additional Sessions of Islamabad, Humayun Dilawar, who has ordered Jan to appear in person to hear his complaint despite the scenes of chaos that occurred during his last court appearance in the Pakistani capital in the middle of last month for this case.
Jan, it should be remembered, ended up declaring from his car, surrounded by thousands of supporters who blocked his entrance to the court for fear that he would end up arrested.
Of the dozens of cases that Jan has open against him — mainly as an alleged instigator of protests and threats against the Pakistani authorities — the so-called Toshakhana case is especially relevant because due to the ongoing investigation into these gifts, Jan ended up disqualified from exercising public office in October of last year.
Specifically, Jan is accused of having used his position to buy and sell gifts in possession of the Pakistani state worth some 570,000 euros, including six Rolex watches, some of them given by a royal family and allegedly sold in Dubai by assistants. of the former president
Jan has denied the charges and assured that the Toshakhana case is just one more episode in the campaign of persecution against him that the country’s authorities have undertaken, with the collaboration of the Army, and that the ultimate protagonist is his political nemesis, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
