What is Al-Qadir Trust corruption case against Imran Khan?
Rangers arrested former Prime Minister Imran Khan from outside Islamabad High Court, where he had gone to seek bail in multiple FIRs registered against him in the Al-Qadir Trust case.
The law enforcement agency took him into custody from the courtroom and transported him in a black Vigo.
Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court Justice Amir Farooq summoned the Inspector General of Police in Islamabad and the Additional Attorney General over the sudden arrest of PTI chairman Imran Khan.
Al-Qadir Trust case
The NAB is conducting investigations into the former prime minister, his wife Bushra Bibi, and other PTI officials for their roles in a deal the PTI government made with a property tycoon that reportedly caused a loss of 190 million pounds to the national exchequer.
The authorities have accused Khan and the other defendants of using Rs50 billion, which the Pakistani government received as part of an agreement with the property tycoon by Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA).
Furthermore, authorities have charged them with receiving undue benefits in the form of more than 458 kanals of land in Mouza Bakrala, Sohawa, for the construction of Al Qadir University.
During the PTI government, the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) seized assets worth 190 million pounds from a property tycoon in Britain.
The agency stated, “We will transfer the assets to the government of Pakistan, and we consider the settlement with the Pakistani property tycoon as a civil matter that does not represent a finding of guilt.”
Prime Minister Khan
Prime Minister Khan, at that time, obtained approval for the settlement with the UK crime agency from his cabinet on December 3, 2019, without revealing the specifics of the confidential agreement.
They determined to submit the money to the Supreme Court on behalf of the tycoon.
The Imran-led government approved the agreement with the property tycoon and established the Al-Qadir Trust in Islamabad a few weeks later.
Initially, they appointed Zulfi Bukhari, Babar Awan, Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi, and her close friend Farah Khan as members of the Al-Qadir Trust.
Two to three months after the cabinet’s approval, the property tycoon transferred 458 canals of land to Bukhari, a close aide of the PTI chief, which he later transferred to the trust.
Bukhari and Awan later withdrew as trustees, and the trust is now registered in the names of Khan, Bushra Bibi, and Farah.
Earlier, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officials were investigating the alleged abuse of power in the recovery of “dirty money” received from the UK crime agency.
As a result of the discovery of irrefutable evidence in the case, the inquiry against Imran, Bushra Bibi, Barrister Shahzad Akbar, and a real estate tycoon was converted into an investigation.
NAB officials claim that Khan and his wife received land worth billions of rupees from the property tycoon in return for providing legal coverage to the tycoon’s black money received from the UK crime agency.
