ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has presented documents showing money sent by his ex-wife, Jemima Goldsmith, to acquire land for his Bani Gala residence in the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
A petition filed by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Hanif Abbasi regarding ‘foreign funding’ of the PTI is being heard in the Supreme Court and the apex court had served notices to Imran Khan and his party members last month over matters pertaining to money trail surrounding purchase of the PTI chief’s Bani Gala residence.
The apex court had raised as many as 14 questions from the PTI chairman regarding the purchase of Bani Gala land and an offshore firm he owned. Imran Khan had thus contacted his ex-wife Jemima Goldsmith, asking for the record of bank transactions for the purchase of land.
Khan, through his lawyer, the other day had requested the court to keep Jemima’s bank accounts and other details confidential and not make them public. He had also provided his former wife’s Luxembourg Bank letters to the details submitted in the apex court.
As per the documents, Jemima transferred $275,678 and $217,000 in Rashid Khan’s account on July 29 and April 8, 2002, respectively.
The documents stated that Jemima’s account details establish a transfer of $258,333, while she deposited another $100000 on January 22, 2003.
However, this could not be ascertained as to which bank she transferred $100,000.
