Corruption charges related to purchase of London flats,with verdict likely to affect electionThe former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for corruption in a verdict likely to influence the general election due to be held on 25 July.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Pakistan’s anti-graft court, or ruled that Sharif and his family laundered money in the 1990s to pay for four luxury apartments in Park Lane in London,drawing on allegations that resurfaced in the Panama Papers leak, published by the Guardian and others in 2016. Related: Imran Khan’s rise is a metaphor for a changing world the west has failed to see | Jason Burke Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com