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Rolex to diamonds: What’s landed Pakistan’s Imran Khan a 14-year jail term?

Gifts included a Master Graff watch from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman [File: KM Chaudary/AP Photo]

A court in Pakistan has sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to 14 years in prison just a week before general elections, for unlawfully buying and selling state gifts.

The former prime minister and his wife were also fined each 787 million rupees ($2.8m) in a case known as the asset concealment case, or Toshakhana case.

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