Key witnesses in Toshakhana 2 case confess to undervaluing jewellery gifted to Imran, Bushra

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According to Geo News, Rawalpindi: Pakistan Tehreek-Annaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and his wife Bashara Babi in a major turning point in Toshakhana 2 case, key witnesses have deliberately confessed to reducing the jewelry set in a gift.

The relevant confession statements are a private diameter of Khan’s former personal secretary, Anamullah Shah, and Bulgarian jewelery seat, Sohib Abbasi.

The seat of the jewelry was given to Khan and his wife by the Saudi royal family when the former prime minister was held.

In his statement filed before the court, Shah said that he not only received “double salary” from both PTI and his government job from 2019 to 2021, but also forced a private diagnosis to reduce the Bulgarian jewelry seat.

“I asked [Sohaib] To reduce the price of the Abbasi jewelry set, “he said.

“I was fired from the job because of Basra Babi’s anger [she] It was suspected that my brother had links with Jahangir Terren, “Shah gave remarks, adding that he was posted as the Prime Minister’s House (PMO) compfer in Bani Gala.

While echoing his remarks, private diameter Abbasi confessed to reducing the jewelry due to fear and on the direction of Khan’s former Principal Secretary who asked him to value Rs 5 million.

“[Inamullah] Shah threatened that if the price was not reduced, it would be blacklisted from the government departments, “Abbasi told the court.

The diameter added that he recorded his confessional statement regarding the reducing the seat of jewelry in front of a magistrate along with the Chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

According to NAB officials, the original value of the Bulgarian jewelery set was Rs 7575 million, but the former Prime Minister reduced it to Rs 5.9 million by a private diagnostar, which included a necklace, bracelet, earrings and a ring.

Toshakhana 2 Case

The reference filed by the NAB was related to the jewelery given to Bashara by the Saudi royal family when her husband Khan was the prime minister from 2018 to 2022.

Anti -graft watchdog further alleged that during his tenure as Prime Minister, Khan and his wife received a total of 108 gifts from various heads of state and foreign honorees.

It alleges that the former woman first acquired a jewelry set – with a ring, bracelet, necklace a pair – a visit to Saudi Arabia in May 2021. He said that the founder of the PTI and his wife had illegally set a seat of jewelry.

The reference states that the Deputy military secretary informed the Toshakhana Section Officer that he was not deposited in Toshakhana to estimate and declare the price of jewelry sets.

The jewelry company sold on May 25, 2018, € 300,000 and earrings, 000 80,000. Information about bracelet and color cannot be obtained from the company.

On May 28, 2021, the jewelry set was estimated at Rs 70.56 million. The defeat was priced at Rs 50.64 million and the cost of the earrings included in jewelry worth Rs 10.50 million.

According to the rules, the price of the jewelry set is about Rs 3535.28 million. According to this reference, the national exchequer suffered a loss of about Rs 3535.28 million after reducing the jewelry.

The couple was charged in December 2024 by a special Islamabad court in the case, which rejected their worst petitions.

The Toshakhana 2 case does not have to be mixed in the first Tashkhan case in which the couple was sentenced to 14 years in prison and in January each was fined Rs 1.57 billion, ie Rs 787 million.

In the first (old) Toshakhana case, the couple’s sentence was suspended by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) in April 2024.