Islamabad: Taking a dig at former premier Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister Imran Khan said Saturday that the Pakistani mafia uses tactics of bribe, threat, blackmail and begging to put pressure on state institutions and judiciary to protect their billions of money laundering stashed abroad.

Khan's statement came after a video surrounding the trial of Sharif was leaked by PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz. In the video, according to the PML-N, Accountability Court Judge Arshad Malik admitted that he convicted Sharif without evidences, The News reported. Sharif is currently serving a seven-year jail sentence in the Kot Lakhpat jail in the eastern city of Lahore. He was convicted and jailed last year after failing to prove the source of income that had led to his ownership of a steel mill in Saudi Arabia. Malik has rebutted the claims made by the Opposition party.