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Pakistan News: Imran Khan, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, is getting entangled in allegations one after the other. Now he has been accused of selling gifts received by foreign leaders. In fact, a news in the media on Wednesday in Pakistan has revealed that Imran Khan earned Rs 3.6 crore by illegally selling three expensive watches gifted from leaders of other countries.
According to official investigation details shared with Geo News, Imran Khan has earned crores of rupees from these gem-studded precious watches during his tenure as Prime Minister, whose total value is Rs 15.4 crores. It has been said in the news that the cost of the most expensive watch was Rs 10.1 crore, which the former Prime Minister has kept with him by paying 20 percent of its price.
The gift has to be deposited in the government treasury
Earlier, Imran Khan’s government had changed the ‘Toshakhana’ rules and decided that gifts could be retained by paying 50 per cent of the original price. According to the law of Pakistan, any gift received from foreign leaders has to be deposited in the state treasury.
20 percent deposited in the government treasury
The news quoted documents and sale receipts as saying that instead of buying these precious watches from Toshakhana with his own money, the former cricketer first sold the watches and deposited 20 per cent of the value of each watch in the exchequer. Apparently the gifts were never deposited in Toshakhana. It is necessary for any government official to immediately inform about the gift received, so that its value can be assessed. If any officer wants to keep the gift with him, he can first deposit it and then take it after paying a fixed price.
A watch was sold on 22 Jan 2019
Toshakhana documents show that Khan earned Rs 3.6 crore by selling these expensive watches, which were given to him by the Allies of the Gulf. A watch was sold on 22 January 2019. Earlier, the then PTI government had amended the rules and fixed the cost of retaining any gift from 20 per cent to 50 per cent of its assessed value. The 69-year-old Khan, who heads the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party (PTI), had earlier said in an informal conversation with journalists, “Mera tohfa meri marzi”.
‘Toshakhana gifts sold in Dubai for 14 crores’
The matter came to the fore when Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif had said that Khan had sold Toshakhana gifts in Dubai for Rs 14 crore during his tenure. Meanwhile, accusing the current coalition government of corruption, Khan said on Tuesday that the country’s economy can recover only if the billions of dollars stashed abroad by the Zardari and Sharif families are brought back. Reiterating his demand for a fair and transparent general election, the former prime minister said this was the only way to bring the country out of political turmoil.