Imran Khan also arrested in Toshakhana, Al-Qadir corruption cases

Imran Khan arrested in Al-Qadir Trust and Toshakhana gifts cases. NAB team executed arrest warrants in Adiala Jail. Khan accused of settling 190 million GBP fine for tycoon in return for 57 acres of land

Former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is already imprisoned in Adiala Jail in the cipher case, has also been arrested by Pakistan’s top anti-corruption office in the Al-Qadir Trust case and Toshakhana gifts case, media reports said on Tuesday.

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested Mr. Khan on Monday after Accountability Court Judge Mohammad Bashir ratified the arrest warrants and directed the Adiala Jail superintendent to execute them, the Dawn newspaper reported.

“Khan was arrested in Al-Qadir Trust case also on Monday when a NAB team, led by Assistant Director Muhammad Asif and Waqarul Hasan visited District Jail (Adiala), Rawalpindi, and executed arrest warrants through the jail superintendent,” The News International reported.

It said the execution of the arrest warrants meant that Mr. Khan, former Prime Minister and chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, was also arrested in Toshakhana, Al-Qadir cases. He would be investigated in jail by a NAB team after obtaining his physical remand from a court of law.

Mr. Khan, 71, has been lodged in the Adiala Jail in connection with the cipher case, months after his arrest in August. The Ali-Qadir Trust case is about the settlement of 190 million pounds which the UK’s National Crime Agency sent to Pakistan after recovering the amount from a Pakistani property tycoon.

Mr. Khan being the Prime Minister then, instead of depositing it in the national kitty, allowed the businessman to use the amount to partly settle a fine of about Rs 450 billion imposed by the Supreme Court some years ago.

Reportedly, the tycoon in return gifted about 57 acres of land to a trust set up by Mr. Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to establish the Al-Qadir University in the Sohawa area of the Jhelum district of Punjab.