The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has registered a case against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan, the party’s finance team and a manager of a private bank, among other leaders in the banned funding case.
According to JEE News, the case was registered by FIA Commercial Banking Circle Islamabad.
Apart from Imran, PTI leader Senator Saifullah Niazi, Sardar Tariq, Syed Younis, Aamir Kayani, Tariq Shafi and members of the party’s financial team and the manager of a private bank have been named in the case.
FIA sources have confirmed the development and said that investigation into the case is on.
According to the First Information Report (FIR), former ruling party leaders have violated the Foreign Exchange Act and were declared beneficiaries of dubious bank accounts.
The FIA ​​claimed that Abraaj Group also transferred $2.1 million to PTI’s bank accounts.
According to FIA sources, the PTI submitted Arif Naqvi’s “fake” affidavit to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) which the party claimed was submitted by Wootton Cricket Limited (WCL). All the funds made were deposited in PTI’s account in Pakistan.
FIA sources said the affidavit turned out to be false as two more transactions were also made in May 2013 from WCL to two different accounts in Pakistan.
He also accused the head of a private bank of helping the PTI in hiding details.
The development comes three days after the PTI challenged the FIA ​​inquiry into the banned funding case in the Islamabad High Court (IHC).
In the petition, PTI demanded the FIA ​​to stop arrests and raids in connection with the case.
The party accused the FIA ​​of “harassing” party leaders on political grounds, urging the court to stop the agency from investigating the banned funding case.
The PTI, in its petition, said the party raised funds to run an anti-government movement after the ‘change of government’. PTI argued that all funds remitted from abroad were received as per law.
“The FIA’s inquiries and raids are illegal and should be stopped immediately,” the petition said, adding that the FIA ​​had raided the house of PTI Senator Saifullah Niazi and harassed him. What did
The FIA ​​began its investigation against the PTI in August this year after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) declared in its verdict that the party had indeed received illegal funding.
The case was filed by PTI founder but disgruntled member Akbar S. Babar and was pending since November 14, 2014.
The written order of the ECP said that the political party received illegal funds from the US, UAE, UK and Australia among other countries.
