The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Commercial Banking Circle Islamabad has secured arrest warrants for six defendants in the illegal funding case, including PTI leaders Saifullah Khan Niazi and Aamir Kayani.
PTI chief Imran Khan, members of the party’s financial team, and a private bank manager were also named in the case.
A court in Islamabad granted interim bail to the PTI head earlier this month in the illegal funding case.
According to sources, arrest warrants have been obtained for other individuals such as Tariq Rahim, Hamid Zaman, and Manzoor Ahmed, and the FIA has created teams to apprehend them.
The case
The FIA had charged PTI executives in the prohibited funding case, including party chairman Imran Khan, the party’s financial team, and a private bank manager.
The FIA Commercial Banking Circle Islamabad filed the complaint.
According to a preliminary information report (FIR), former ruling party leaders breached the Foreign Exchange Act and were named as the beneficiaries of suspicious bank accounts.
The FIA launched its investigation into the PTI in August of this year after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) ruled that the party had certainly received illegal funds.
The case had been pending since November 14, 2014, when it was filed by PTI’s founding but unhappy member Akbar S Babar.
According to the ECP’s written order, the political party received unlawful contributions from countries such as the United States, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
