# Accountability court sentences Khan to 14 years in the Al-Qadir Trust case

Date: 2025

## The fact

On 17 January 2025 Judge Nasir Javed Rana, sitting in a makeshift court at Adiala Jail, convicted [Imran Khan](/people/imran-khan) of corrupt practices in the £190 million Al-Qadir Trust case and sentenced him to 14 years; Bushra Bibi received seven. He denies theft and has appealed.

## Context

Prosecutors said UK-repatriated NCA funds were used to settle a developer’s liabilities in exchange for land to the Trust. He says the case is political. IHC later scheduled appeals. A denial is not an acquittal.

Toshakhana 2023 is a neighbouring earlier gifts row. Cipher acquittal is a neighbouring opposite-direction court row.

A former prime minister in prison does not write [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) statutes, IMF board decisions, or GHQ orders. An appeal is not an acquittal. A medical note is not a conviction. A party video is not a completed steal of 2024. A jail hospital corridor is not a cabinet.

## Evidence and sources

National Accountability Bureau carries the official instrument or communique. BBC records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [institutional corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption) and [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed 14-year NAB sentence against a former prime minister is a heavy accountability instrument he treats as persecution.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 17 January 2025 14-year Al-Qadir sentence at Adiala, independently reported. He denies and has appealed.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

NAB prosecuted. He is the convicted subject who denies. IHC hears appeals.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Accountability court sentences Khan to 14 years in the Al-Qadir Trust case, not a later speech about Accountability court sentences Khan to 14 years in the Al-Qadir Trust case.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Accountability court sentences Khan to 14 years in the Al-Qadir Trust case on 2025-01-17 is not a licence to treat every later National Accountability Bureau communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Accountability court sentences Khan to 14 years in the Al-Qadir Trust case into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The accountability court sentenced. NAB prosecuted. He is the convicted subject who denies. IHC hears appeals. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Imran Khan: https://factrail.ai/people/imran-khan

## Drivers

- Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption
- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly77v0n8e9o
- https://nab.gov.pk/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-alqadir-2025