The Suva High Court has adjourned proceedings till 20th January in the legal proceedings and asset forfeiture case brought by the Director of Public Prosecutions against Imran Khan, also known as King Khan.
This is to allow Khan who is represented by Shayal Kant time to respond to the forfeiture matter.
Kant has been given 30 days to file and serve afterwhich the State will then have 30 days to reply.
The State is also seeking 21 days to respond to strikeout summons application filed by Khan's lawyer, then they will also get 21 days to reply to the State.
High Court Judge Justice Senileba Levaci has told the lawyers that they will also have the hearing on the forfeiture on the same day and written submissions are to be filed 7 days before 20th January for them to respond in court.
Justice Levaci also stated that they will also have the hearing on the stay application on the same day.
Earlier this year, the Suva High Court granted the State’s application for a permanent restraining order over the assets of Khan and Deborah Kim.
The Court declared the assets as unexplained wealth and ordered that they be permanently restrained after finding that the respondents had failed to provide evidence showing that the properties were acquired through lawful means.
The assets subject to the civil forfeiture application include $404,840.34 held in a bank account.
It also includes a three-bedroom concrete house and land at Lot 21 on DP 5225, Valelevu Housing Authority SubLease No. 204059.
Four vehicles are also covered by the application — a BMW sedan with registration FH 945, a Toyota wagon with registration KNGKHN, a Nissan sedan with registration 913, and a Toyota sedan with registration IV 991.
