Pakistan’s former prime minister and cricketer Imran Khan obtained a 10-year jail sentence on Tuesday for leaking state secrets and techniques within the harshest punishment of a number of instances he faces.

In jail since August, the 71-year-old denies wrongdoing and accuses the navy of persecuting him.

Following are particulars of the primary instances amongst 150 he says have been launched towards him since being ousted in 2022.

SECRETS CASE

Khan is charged with making public a categorised cable despatched to Islamabad by Pakistan’s ambassador in Washington in 2022, in what is often often called the Cipher case. He denies the cost and has stated the contents appeared within the media from different sources.

Khan has stated the cable was proof of a conspiracy by the navy and U.S. authorities to topple his authorities in 2022 after he visited Moscow simply earlier than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Washington and Pakistan’s navy deny that.

GIFTS CASE

Khan was handed a three-year jail sentence in August for promoting presents price greater than 140 million rupees ($501,000) in state possession and obtained throughout his 2018-2022 premiership.

The sentence was later suspended however Khan stays behind bars in reference to different instances. He has stated that he legally bought the gadgets. Government officers have alleged Khan’s aides bought the presents in Dubai.

An inventory of those presents shared by a former info minister included perfumes, diamond jewelry, dinner units and 7 watches, six of them Rolexes – the costliest being a “Master Graff limited edition” valued at 85 million rupees ($304,000).

LAND BRIBERY CASE

Khan was beforehand arrested for 4 days in May final yr on expenses that he and his spouse obtained land as a bribe via the Al-Qadir Trust – a charitable belief arrange by Bushra Watto, Khan’s third spouse, and Khan in 2018 when nonetheless in workplace.

Pakistani authorities have accused Khan and his spouse of receiving the land, price as much as 7 billion rupees ($25 million), from a property developer charged in Britain with cash laundering.

Authorities accused Khan of getting the land in alternate for a favour to the property developer through the use of 190 million kilos repatriated by Britain within the cash laundering probe to pay fines levied by a court docket towards the developer.

Khan’s aides have beforehand stated that the land was donated to the belief for charitable functions. The actual property developer has additionally denied any wrongdoing.