‘Pakistani Mafia uses Bribes, Blackmail to Pressure Judiciary’: Imran Khan

‘Pakistani Mafia uses Bribes, Blackmail to Pressure Judiciary’: Imran Khan

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday likened his country’s money laundering suspects to the Sicilian mafia, saying they also use bribes, threats and blackmail to pressurize state institutions and the judiciary to protect their money illegally stashed abroad. His remark came in a tweet accompanied by a four-year-old news article about a testimony given by former Italian President Giorgio Napolitano during a trial regarding bombings carried out by mobsters in the 1990s, the Dawn reported.

Napolitano was reported to have told prosecutors that the attacks were a form of “extortion or outright pressure aimed at destabilising the entire system”. The bombings had allegedly led to high-ranking Italian ministers negotiating with the Sicilian mafia to end the violence in exchange for softer jail sentences and better conditions in prison for convicted mobsters. “In a similar vein to the ‘Sicilian mafia’, the Pakistani mafia uses tactics of bribe, threat, blackmail and begging to pressurize state institutions and judiciary in order to protect their billions of money laundering stashed abroad,” Khan wrote on Twitter. (IANS)

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