- Ex-wife says has tracked down old bank statements to prove PTI chief innocence
Jemima Goldsmith, former wife of Imran Khan, on Thursday announced that she has finally tracked down 15-year-old bank statements to substantiate claims of his ex-husband about his financial transactions in ongoing cases in the Supreme Court and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
“Finally, tracked down 15-year-old bank statements to prove Imran Khan’s money trail/innocence in court. Now please go after the real crooks,” the tweet read. Petitions seeking the disqualification of Imran Khan and Jahangir Tareen over the non-disclosure of assets, their ownership of offshore companies and for being a foreign-funded party are currently being heard in both the SC and the ECP.
Following the statement, PTI’s official Twitter account also posted that the money trail has been established and the case demolished, although the court has yet to decide on the matter. Jemima’s help came after PTI’s counsel had admitted before the Supreme Court that it was an ‘omission’ on part of his client that he did not disclose his offshore company in his asset details.
With reference to the cases, Imran has repeatedly claimed that he has done nothing wrong and that any money he brought into Pakistan was brought through legal means. The most recent of these claims were made in a series of tweets in which he claimed that he bought his London property with the money he made through playing cricket.
According to his tweets, he paid for the Bani Gala property through the money he had made out of selling the London flat in 2003. Hanif Abbasi, the complainant in the SC, has argued that by not disclosing the Niazi Services Limited (NSL) – an offshore entity which was dissolved in 2015 – in his income tax returns and before the ECP, Imran had ceased, to be honest, and should, therefore, be disqualified.
On Wednesday, the ECP told PTI to submit relevant financial documents to it by June 22. In the same hearing, PTI once again failed to produce the financial documents and, instead, took the plea that since a similar matter was pending before the Supreme Court, the hearing should be postponed until instructions from the apex court were received.