{"id":28469,"date":"2018-10-24T12:34:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T07:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28469"},"modified":"2018-10-24T12:34:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T07:04:45","slug":"nawaz-sharif-sentenced-to-10-years-in-jail-for-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nawaz-sharif-sentenced-to-10-years-in-jail-for-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Nawaz Sharif sentenced to 10 years in jail for corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/nawaz-sharif-sentenced-to-10-years-in-jail\/article24351821.ece\">Nawaz Sharif sentenced to 10 years in jail for corruption<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawz Sharif has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for corruption by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) court<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Sharif\u2019s daughter Maryam and son-in-law have also been convicted. They have been sentenced to seven years and one year in jail respectively.<\/li>\n<li>They have been convicted in the Avenfield corruption case- one among the four cases against Nawaz Sharif and his children. The Avenfield case relates to the ownership of properties in London.<\/li>\n<li>In 2017, Pakistan Supreme Court had disqualified Nawaz Sharif from the post of Prime Minister after the Panama Papers revelations.<\/li>\n<li>Sharif was accused of money laundering to purchase assets in London. The Panama papers showed that showed that the assets were managed through offshore companies owned by Sharif\u2019s children.<\/li>\n<li>The entire controversy started in 2016, following a data leak of Mossack Fonseca -a Panama-based law firm which documents offshore dealings of many firms<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nawaz Sharif sentenced to 10 years in jail for corruption News: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawz Sharif has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for corruption by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) court Important facts: Sharif\u2019s daughter Maryam and son-in-law have also been convicted. They have been sentenced to seven years and one year&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nawaz-sharif-sentenced-to-10-years-in-jail-for-corruption\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nawaz Sharif sentenced to 10 years in jail for corruption<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704591725},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}