Peshawar court sentences Afghan to 25 years in prison

PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): An Afghan citizen has been sentenced to 25 years after being found him guilty of smuggling more than three kilograms of gold.

An anti-terrorism court in Peshawar handed down the jail sentence to the accused, Idrees, on Friday.

He was charged and found guilty under various sections of Pakistan’s money-laundering laws, suggest court documents.

Idrees was arrested in August 2020 and has since been held in custody. The court also fined him $630,000 and ordered his deportation once he served the sentence.

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