The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has reportedly booked Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders, consisting of its chairman and previous Prime Minister Imran Khan, in a prohibited investment case. The birthday birthday celebration’s economic crew and a supervisor of a personal financial institution have been additionally booked withinside the case, nearby media reviews stated.
According to an editorial posted via way of means of Dawn.com, the case become filed via the FIA’s Corporate Banking Circle in Islamabad. A first facts file (FIR) withinside the case stated Arif Masood Naqvi — the proprietor of the Wooton Cricket Limited — transferred “ill-gotten” cash to an account of United Bank Limited (UBL) registered beneathneath the call of the Khan’s birthday birthday celebration.
The grievance named Imran Khan, Sardar Azhar Tariq Khan, Saifullah Khan Nyazee, Syed Yunus Ali Raza, Aamer Mehmood Kiani, Tariq Rahim Sheikh, Tariq Shafi, Faisal Maqbool Shaikh, Hamid Zaman and Manzoor Ahmad Chaudhary as signatories/beneficiaries of the birthday birthday celebration’s account in question.
“The cause said withinside the quick messages of the transactions is ‘agreed transfer’ to hide the genuine nature, origin, location, motion and possession of those funds,” the grievance read.
According to the FIR, leaders of the birthday birthday celebration had violated the Foreign Exchange Act and that they have been declared as beneficiaries of suspicious financial institution bills.
The FIR in addition stated Naqvi become additionally dealing with trials withinside the United Kingdom and america defrauding investors, a file via way of means of information business enterprise PTI read.
“PTI submitted a testimony of Arif Masood Naqvi earlier than the Election Commission of Pakistan mentioning therein that every one the quantities accumulated withinside the bills of WCL have been submitted into PTI’s account in Pakistan. This affidavit has been proved to be false/cast as extra transactions have been additionally crafted from WCL to 2 distinctive bills in Pakistan in May 2013,” the FIR stated.
Last month, the Election Commission in its verdict withinside the prohibited investment case towards PTI said that the birthday birthday celebration did certainly get hold of prohibited investment.
A three-member ECP bench headed via way of means of Chief Election Commissioner Sikander (CEC) Sultan Raja stated that the birthday birthday celebration “knowingly and willfully” obtained investment from Wootton Cricket Limited. The birthday birthday celebration become a “inclined recipient” of prohibited cash of USD 2,121,500, it stated.