ISLAMABAD: The Accountability Court has reportedly decided that it will not announce the verdict of the £190 million National Crime Agency (NCA) scam commonly known as the Al-Qadir Trust case against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founding chairman Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi on Monday (today).
It is pertinent to be mentioned here that Accountability Court Nasir Javed Rana on December 18 reserved its verdict on Al-Qadir Trust case following defence counsel completed his final arguments and fixed December 23 for announcement of the judgment.
Sources said that the Accountability Court decided that it will not announce the verdict of Al-Qadir Trust case today (Monday) and the court staff has also informed PTI’s lawyers in this regard. The court will fix a new date for the announcement of the judgment during the hearing to be held at the Federal Judicial Complex (FJC) at sector G-II, they said.
Al-Qadir Trust case: court reserves verdict in £190mn case against Imran, Bushra
The Accountability Court on February 27 had indicted Khan and his wife in the same case. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), on December 1, 2023 had filed Al-Qadir Trust case reference against Khan, his wife Bushra Bibi and six others in the Accountability Court.
The bureau had nominated Khan, his wife Bushra Bibi, trustee of Al Qadir Trust; Farhat Shehzadi alias Farah Gogi; Shehzad Akbar, former special assistant to the prime minister on accountability and former chairman of Asset Recovery Unit (ARU); Malik Riaz Hussain, chief executive officer (CEO) of Bahria Town Private Limited, Ziaul Mustafa Nasim, former expert on international criminal law ARU, Syed Zulfiqar Abbas Bukhari, former trustee of Al Qadir Trust, and Ahmed Ali Riaz.
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