<div>An accountability court in Pakistan today sentenced ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison in one of the three corruption cases against him in the high-profile Panama Papers scandal. </div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>His daughter Maryam was sentenced to seven years and son-in-law Captain (retired) Safdar to one year. </div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>Accountability court judge Mohammad Bashir pronounced the verdict behind closed doors. The court delivered the verdict after postponing it for four times in the Avenfield corruption case — pertaining to the ownership of four flats in the posh Avenfield House in London.</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>Nawaz Sharif is in London attending to his wife Kulsoom Nawaz who was diagnosed with throat cancer last year.</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>While Nawaz Sharif was fined 10 million dollar, his daughter Maryam was handed down a 2.6 million dollar fine.</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>The judgement runs in over 100 pages.</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>The ruling came weeks before the general elections in Pakistan on the 25th of July.</div>