ISLAMABAD – Federal investigators on Tuesday registered a case againstformer prime minister Imran Khan relating to prohibited funding to hisparty Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
The case was registered at FIA Banking Circle Police Station in Islamabad.
According to the FIR, the Abraaj Group, which is owned by business tycoonArif Naqvi, allegedly transferred $2.1 million to the PTI account in thebranch of a bank situated at Jinnah Avenue in the federal capital.
The federal agency further alleged that Imran Khan-led party also receivedfunds from two bank accounts of Wotan Cricket Club.
The FIA has also booked Sardar Azhar Tariq, Tariq Shafi, and Younis AamirKiani in the same case. It also stated that Arif Naqvi submitted a fakeaffidavit to the ECP in prohibited funding case.
Some officials of the bank branch have also been named in the FIR overfailing to report the authorities concerned about suspicious transactionsrelated to PTI.
The FIR was lodged just a day after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) issued anotice to the FIA in the prohibited funding case after PTI asked the courtto stop the agency from investigation in the case.
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The FIA had launched its probe against the PTI in August this year afterthe Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had declared in its verdict thatthe party had received illegal funding.
Announcing ruling on a case filed by disgruntled PTI leader Akbar S Babarin 2014, the top election body said that the Imran Khan-led party alsoreceived funds from business tycoon Arif Naqvi and from 34 foreignnationals.
ECP maintained that the party had submitted a fake affidavit about its bankaccounts, and it had determined that the party hid 13 bank accounts that itshould have declared.
ECP, in its written orders, stated that the PTI had received illegal fundsfrom foreign countries including the US, UAE, UK, and Australia.
