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Maryam Nawaz convicted in Avenfield case

On 6 July 2018 a Pakistani accountability court sentenced Maryam Nawaz to seven years for abetment in the Avenfield reference over her family's London flats, with a concurrent one-year term for non-cooperation; her father Nawaz Sharif received ten years. The case grew out of the 2016 Panama Papers.

Maryam Nawaz (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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On 6 July 2018 a Pakistani accountability court sentenced Maryam Nawaz to seven years for abetment in the Avenfield reference over her family's London flats, with a concurrent one-year term for non-cooperation; her father Nawaz Sharif received ten years. The case grew out of the 2016 Panama Papers. She was acquitted on appeal in 2022.

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  • Maryam Nawaz

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    Maryam Nawaz convicted in Avenfield case. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

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  1. 1.bbc.co.uk — sourcebbc.co.uk · verified
  2. 2.nation.com.pkchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: maryam+avenfield · verified
  3. 3.thefridaytimes.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: maryam+avenfield · verified

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Factrail. (2026). Maryam Nawaz convicted in Avenfield case. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/maryam-nawaz-avenfield-conviction-2018-07-06

https://factrail.ai/facts/maryam-nawaz-avenfield-conviction-2018-07-06

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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