Sana describes Imran’s arrest.
Says £190m belonging to national kitty was laundered in Al-Qadir Trust case.
On Tuesday, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah announced that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had arrested former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan in connection with the Al-Qadir Trust case.
“NAB is an independent institution that is neither controlled by the government nor attempts to control it,” Sanaullah said at a news conference.
The minister stated unequivocally that he did not meet with the NAB chairman or any other official, and that the government had nothing to do with Imran’s arrest because the bureau had already served several notices on the PTI chief in the Al-Qadir Trust case.
He claimed that there were “dozens” of other cases of corruption filed against Imran that were being tried in court.
The minister said in the Al-Qadir Trust case, about £190 million (approximately Rs60 billion) of a “property tycoon” transferred through money laundering were caught in the United Kingdom.
The UK government approached Pakistani officials over the return of the funds.
