Pak court sentences former PM Nawaz Sharif to 7 years in jail in Al-Azizia Steel Mills case
World | December 24, 2018 15:44 ISTFormer Pak PM Nawaz Sharif sentenced to 7 years in jail, 25 million USD fine in Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case.
Former Pak PM Nawaz Sharif sentenced to 7 years in jail, 25 million USD fine in Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case.
The bench was hearing Verma's plea challenging the government's decision to divest him of duties and sending him on leave.
Officer Sinha has alleged that he was transferred to Nagpur and as a result has been taken out from the probe team investigating the FIR against Asthana.
The hearing comes two days after Verma, appeared before the CVC panel headed by KV Chowdhary and refuted allegations levelled against him by CBI Special Director Rakesh Asthana.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had taken Shahbaz Sharif, Opposition Leader in the National Assembly and younger brother of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, into custody on October 5 in the Rs 14 billion Ashiana-i-Iqbal housing project scam.
Asthana came to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) office at around 4.45 PM and stayed there for around 10 minutes, but could not meet any senior official as there was no scheduled appointment.
Earlier on Thursday, CBI Director Alok Verma appeared before the panel headed by Chowdary and countered the corruption charges levelled against him by Asthana.
Zia, 73, is already behind bars after being handed a five-year term in February in another case related to embezzlement of funds of an orphanage named after her husband late president Ziaur Rahman.
On 13 August, Sharif was brought from the high-security jail in an armoured vehicle to the accountability court of Judge Arshad Malik, who is hearing the remaining two graft cases - the Al-Azizia Steel Mills and the Hill Metal Establishment case.
The accountability court that convicted Sharif and his daughter in a corruption case had ordered they be sent to Adiala Jail after they were taken into custody at the Lahore airport and produced before it on July 13.
The agency has charged him and his wife along with 13 others with criminal conspiracy and corruption among others.
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