Imran Khan has been arrested and sentenced to three years in prison after a court convicted him in a corruption case that he claims is politically motivated.

Police swooped in on the former international cricket star’s home in Lahore on Saturday, shortly after a court convicted him of illegally selling official gifts while he was prime minister.

Anyone convicted of a criminal offence is usually disqualified from contesting elections or holding office in Pakistan, scuppering Khan’s hopes of participating in Pakistan’s next election that has to be held before early November.

“His dishonesty has been established beyond doubt,” judge Humayun Dilawar wrote in a court ruling seen by the Telegraph.

“He has been found guilty of corrupt practices by hiding the benefits he accrued from [the] national exchequer wilfully and intentionally.”

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