Prohibited Funding: FIA Registers Case Against Imran Khan

Web Desk — The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday booked PTI Chairman Imran Khan and 10 others in the prohibited funding case.

The first information report (FIR) has been lodged at the FIA’s banking circle police station Islamabad. Imran Khan, Sardar Azhar Tariq, Saifullah Niazi, Syed Younis, Aamir Kayani, Tariq Rahim Sheikh, Tariq Shafi, Faisal Maqbool Sheikh, Hamid Zaman, and Manzoor Ahmad Chaudhry have been named in the FIR.

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on August 2, 2022, gave its verdict in the prohibited funding case against PTI pending since 2014. In the verdict, it was proved that Tehreek-e-Insaf received prohibited funding.

According to the FIR, a bank account was created in the name of Naya Pakistan, the bank manager allowed the illegal bank account to be operated. From Abraaj Group of Companies, around $2.1 million came into the bank account.

On October 7, FIA detained PTI Senator Saifullah Niazi from Islamabad and Hamid Zaman from Lahore in connection with the investigation of the prohibited funding case.