Pak Ex-PM Nawaz Sharif Granted Protective Bail In Corruption Cases Ahead Of Return
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Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who was in London in voluntary exile, has been granted protective bail from arrest till October 24 in the Al-Azizia Mills and Avenfield corruption cases ahead of his planned return to the country on October 21 .
In July 2018, Sharif ousted and sentenced to 10 years in jail in connection with the Avenfield properties corruption case for owning assets beyond known income and another one year for not cooperating with National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
The Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption pertains to the case in which he was sentenced to seven years in jail and then taken to Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail. He was also fined Rs1.5 billion and US$25 million in the case, the Dawn reported.
Before moving out of Pakistan, he was serving a seven-year imprisonment at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail in the Al-Azizia Mills case before he was allowed to proceed to London in 2019 on “medical grounds”.
In 2016, Nawaz Sharif stepped down as the prime minister after the Supreme Court disqualified him for life for concealing assets.
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