An accountability court on Tuesday sentenced Mia
n Khurram Rasool, ex-media coordinator of the former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani, to nine-year imprisonment in a case related to a bank fraud involving millions of rupees.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 50 million on the convict. It had earlier on
November 22 reserved the verdict after hearing arguments from defence and prosecution sides. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had filed a reference against Mia
n Khurra
m in 2009 for defrauding a private bank of Rs 71 million. According to the prosecution, he had taken loans of Rs 71 milli
on, Rs 10.2 mil
lion and Rs 10 million from the bank, which later declared him a defaulter.
Published in Daily Times,
November 28th 2018.
