Web Desk (LTN NEWS): The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has asked Imran Khan, who is the leader of the PTI, for records about how much money national and international companies and business firms gave to the party as a whole.
FIA also wants a list of PTI office-holders who are allowed to use the party’s bank accounts.
After the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) ruled that the PTI got money from illegal sources, the FIA began looking into the matter all over the country.
In a letter to Imran Khan, chairman of the PTI, the FIA asked him to show a record of the membership fee from the time the PTI was founded until now.
The investigation agency also asked the party’s leader for annual bank statements since 1996, as well as a list of its registered and unregistered groups and trusts.
Imran Khan is also asked to give a list of everyone who has given money to the PTI, both in Pakistan and abroad. The FIA also told the head of the PTI to give details about the money it got from different companies in different countries.
The agency has also asked for a list of the party’s leaders, their CNICs, and the names of those who had access to the party’s bank accounts. The investigation agency has also told Imran Khan that he needs to give details about the board that is in charge of the party’s finances.
The chairman and general secretary of the party were told to give the information to the FIA in 15 days.
Asad Qaiser, a former speaker of the National Assembly and a top PTI leader, and Imran Ismail, a former governor of Sindh, were called in by the FIA earlier because of the ongoing investigation into the illegal funding case.
The notice sent to the former speaker said that, according to the verdict in Akbar S. Babar’s case, Qaiser has two bank accounts and he is involved in how they work. He has been asked to meet with the inquiry team to answer questions about the bank accounts.
A five-person team has been put together by the FIA to oversee investigations in Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar, Lahore, and Quetta. Muhammad Athar Waheed is in charge of the group.
The FIA started the investigation after getting a letter from Babar. In the letter, Babar asked that the PTI be investigated for getting money through accounts set up in the names of junior employees.
After the ECP’s decision, Akbar S. Babar formally asked the FIA to start a probe into the PTI.
Babar told the FIA that in 2011, the PTI’s financial board gave illegal permission to four employees of the party’s central secretariat to take donations from inside and outside Pakistan and put them in their own accounts.
In Babar’s letter, he said that Rs11.104 million was put into the accounts of PTI employees, which was more money than they were known to make.
