Four members of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) secretariat whose personal and salary accounts were used to receive foreign funds were originally discovered by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).
According to the Agency, Muhammad Arshad, Tahir Iqbal, Muhammad Rafique, and Nauman Afzal all got money into their respective bank accounts. These workers said in their statements that they previously sent the PTI finance manager the funds they received in their accounts. They promised to provide the finance manager signed blank checks. They claimed, however, that they had no knowledge of financing sources. They had no idea who was funding their accounts or what was done with the money they were withdrawing. The FIA learned throughout its inquiry that foreign financing was also received in employee salary accounts in addition to other accounts.
The FIA began its nationwide investigation into the Pakistan Tehreek-e-use Insaf’s of funding from “prohibited” sources on Saturday after launching it the previous day (PTI).
An earlier decision by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said that the party received questionable funding.
According to official sources, the FIA has declared an emergency in order to swiftly examine the case and bring it to a swift conclusion. Six probes have all been launched at the same time, in key cities including Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, and the federal capital.
13 accounts through which these monies were moved have been discovered, according to FIA authorities, and the agency has sent letters to the institutions under which these accounts have been functioning.
In order to assist the inquiry teams with their investigation, courts have also ordered these institutions to provide entire information about the bank accounts to the FIA.
The inquiry was started in response to a letter from Akbar S. Babar, a founding member of PTI, asking for a review into the party’s receipt of finances through accounts created in employees’ names.
Along with nine other people, the investigating agency also called Asad Qaiser, a prominent PTI politician and former speaker of the National Assembly, and Punjab Minister Mian Mahmoodur Rashid.
Four PTI secretariat personnel were contacted by the FIA on Friday in connection with an investigation into money laundering and financial misappropriation, and their testimonies were recorded. The four staffers and personal secretary of PTI Chairman Imran said in their statements that they had no knowledge of the sources of funding and had no idea who had deposited money into their accounts or where it was utilised after being withdrawn from their bank accounts.
Asad Qaiser tweeted after confirming he had gotten a warning from the FIA, “I want to inform the ‘imported’ government that we are not frightened of such disgusting antics.
He advised them to plant as much as they might later reap, saying that the “imported” administration should refrain from utilising the national institutions to exact political retribution.
Asad Qaiser has been called into the FIA Peshawar office on August 11 at 2:00.
According to the notice sent to the former speaker, Asad Qaiser had two bank accounts and was involved with the operation of those two accounts according to the ruling in the Akbar S. Babar case. As a result, he has been asked to appear before the inquiry team to answer questions regarding the specifics of the bank account.
Five inquiry committees with three members each have been formed by the FIA, according to sources, and one committee has been established at the headquarters for coordination.
According to sources, the committees will carry out their investigations in accordance with the ECP’s directives; terms of reference (ToR) have been published in this respect.
Mohsin Butt, director-general of the FIA, is in charge of all inquiries.
The FIA established a five-person team in Karachi that included Assistant Director Rauf Sheikh, Inspectors Sabeen Ghauri and Aftab Watoo, Sub Inspector Rahat Khan, and Deputy Director Bank Circle Rabia Qureshi.
The central committee, established at the headquarters, will subsequently be informed of the committee’s findings once it has been instructed to look into financing firms, individual bank accounts, and all other financial information.
Imran Ismael and Seema Zia have received notifications from the FIA Sindh, which has also started operating.
On Wednesday, Akbar S. Babar formally requested the FIA open an investigation into the PTI.
He claimed to the FIA that the PTI finance board had improperly authorised four party central secretariat officials to receive donations on their own accounts from both Pakistan and outside in 2011.
According to Akbar Babar’s letter, Rs11.104 million was put into the accounts of PTI personnel, which was more money than they had previously disclosed coming in.
In the meantime, Imran Khan was criticised on Saturday by Marriyum Aurangzeb, minister of information and broadcasting, for allegedly attempting to undermine democracy, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), and the national economy in return for foreign funding that the PTI received over the previous ten years.
She and Coordinator to the Prime Minister for Economy and Energy Bilal Azhar Kayani spoke at a press conference where they claimed that “a conspiracy project, launched by Imran Khan, was executed in the country through the foreign funds, received by his party during different periods, including 2008-13, 2013-18 and 2018-22.”
She said that under the scheme, which was put into force in 2008, Imran Khan tried to undermine the parliamentary system and democracy in 2013.
He started a civil disobedience campaign, encouraged his employees to attack the Supreme Court building, and tried to stop the CPEC by sowing political unrest in the nation.
She said that Imran Khan’s supporters would have to interrogate him about how the foreign financing was used. “These were the milestones, delivery points, and obligations which Imran Khan gave to his contributors in exchange for the foreign funding,” she said.
She claimed that while Imran Khan claimed he erred by authorising Sikander Sultan Raja’s appointment as the chief election commissioner, the primary error really occurred when Nawaz Sharif was removed from office for refusing to accept pay from his son.
Marriyum said that it was wrong to contrast Imran Khan with Nawaz Sharif, who, as prime minister, eradicated terrorism, made sure that the economy grew by 6%, produced a tonne of chances for youth employment, and, most importantly, raised the country’s standing internationally.
She said that the country needs to investigate the causes of the “Imran project,” which resulted in the sale of Kashmir, the suspension of CPEC projects, and a decline in economic development.
The young were made unemployed by Imran Khan’s administration, which also produced unrest, political instability, and the imprisonment of media personnel.
People needed to realise that Imran Khan was to blame for the current difficulties, which were brought about in order to fulfil agreements with foreign sponsors.
She said that following the Election Commission of Pakistan’s ruling in the issue involving the PTI’s illegal fundraising, the so-called sincere and honest Imran Khan had been shamefully exposed in front of the country.
The Political Party Ordinance of 2002 and the Election Act of 2017 both designate the party of a foreign agent to be a “foreign-aided party,” she said.
The minister claimed that Imran Khan was attempting to deceive the public by presenting unrelenting lies over a matter that the ECP had been looking into for eight years.
She said that the PTI chairman had “knowingly” and “willfully” accepted illegal donations from several foreign companies and people, which he admitted to by presenting fraudulent affidavits in the ECP five times.
Marriyum claimed Imran Khan accused others of stealing and blaming them for corruption, but when his heist came to light, he attempted to give it a technical spin. He developed naivety about his party’s finances and dismissed it as a technological issue.
“It is not a technical issue, but rather an open and shut case of foreign funding, as no party is allowed to receive any funding from a foreign government, individual, or company under the Political Parties Order 2002,” she said, adding that the PTI hid the bank accounts into which money was funnelled from abroad.
She noted that the PTI created unauthorised bank accounts in the names of the party’s secretariat staff and said that Imran Khan had misused contributions by using them for political and private reasons.
She emphasised that the public needed to realise that the issue included the former premier, the State Bank of Pakistan, and the ECP rather than the PTI and the PMLN. The PMLN has nothing to do with the case of foreign funding, she said, and it was brought by one of its own members, Akbar S. Babar.
The minister claimed that Imran Khan continued to be a significant impediment to the foreign funding case’s progress, which the ECP called in its verdict as “the biggest misuse of law had occurred.”
She said that Imran Khan used money he had received from Pakistanis living abroad for flood relief efforts and other natural catastrophes for political and personal gain.
According to Marriyum, the senior PTI leadership, including Imran Khan, signed off on the money his party received in the shady bank accounts.
“Details of the unreported bank accounts and the money trail of the PTI’s foreign funding have come to light. The masks of “Sadiq” and “Ameen” have been lifted from Imran Khan’s face, and he has been labelled a criminal, she said.
She criticised PTI for releasing phoney interviews with foreign Pakistanis who claimed to be its financiers on its social media pages, saying “Imran Khan has not disputed that he did not get money from Romita Shetty (an Indian businesswoman) and Wootton Cricket Limited.”
She dared Imran Khan to publish the interview with Arif Naqvi and other foreigners and company members who contributed to his party with dollars, pounds, and other money.
She said that Arif Naqvi was used as a cover to hide the true names of other foreign suppliers.
From 2013, she added, PTI got funding from Wootton Cricket Limited, Bristol Engineering Services, and Eplanet Trustees. She further mentioned that 34 foreign people were employed by the American-based firms.
She said that PTI had revealed it had established LLCs 5975 and 6160 in other countries. In LLC 5975, 13 foreign nationals and 231 businesses donated money, but in the other, 31 foreign nationals and 120 businesses did. PTI established more businesses to attract international investment. She said that 31 firms had contributed money, but Imran kept denying knowing about the illegal fundraising. If the money were utilised for political reasons, she continued, “there was no technicality.”
She said that PTI has revealed the identities of the front people who had gathered the money from several nations. She said that their videos were public.
The State Bank of Pakistan and ECP both found evidence that Imran Khan had committed a crime.
Muhammad Arshad, Tahir Iqbal, Muhammad Rafique, and Nauman Afzal are just a few of the party secretariat staffers whose accounts Imran Khan received money from but he never disclosed to the ECP.
She said that the FIA inquiry was ongoing and was being handled transparently.
She said that other PTI leaders including Asad Qaiser, Imran Ismail, Shah Farman, Saifullah Niazi, and others had got the payments in their own accounts. In this instance, Imran Khan and members of the finance boards co-signed for these accounts.
Along with naming a few foreign financiers, the minister also cited Mukesh Kanda, Charn Jeet Singh, Charles, Michael, and others. Ironically, Imran Khan was unaware that his party was still receiving financing.
She claimed that Imran Khan launched the regime transition storyline to hide his corruption and that as a result, Bani Gala became known as “Money Gala.”
“This charade must cease now that a foreign agent has been apprehended and the PTI has been labelled a foreign-aided party,” she yelled.
As the ECP had made a judgement on Akbar S. Babar’s petition, who had filed a complaint against the funds received by the party up till 2013, she said that it was only a preview of Imran Khan’s foreign funding and that the whole movie had not yet been released.
Investigation into foreign funding reveals four PTI workers’ accounts.
Four PTI secretariat personnel were first singled out by the FIA as having utilised their personal and pay accounts to receive foreign funds.
Four members of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) secretariat whose personal and salary accounts were used to receive foreign funds were originally discovered by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).
According to the Agency, Muhammad Arshad, Tahir Iqbal, Muhammad Rafique, and Nauman Afzal all got money into their respective bank accounts. These workers said in their statements that they previously sent the PTI finance manager the funds they received in their accounts. They promised to provide the finance manager signed blank checks. They claimed, however, that they had no knowledge of financing sources. They had no idea who was funding their accounts or what was done with the money they were withdrawing. The FIA learned throughout its inquiry that foreign financing was also received in employee salary accounts in addition to other accounts.
The FIA began its nationwide investigation into the Pakistan Tehreek-e-use Insaf’s of funding from “prohibited” sources on Saturday after launching it the previous day (PTI).
An earlier decision by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said that the party received questionable funding.
According to official sources, the FIA has declared an emergency in order to swiftly examine the case and bring it to a swift conclusion. Six probes have all been launched at the same time, in key cities including Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, and the federal capital.
13 accounts through which these monies were moved have been discovered, according to FIA authorities, and the agency has sent letters to the institutions under which these accounts have been functioning.
In order to assist the inquiry teams with their investigation, courts have also ordered these institutions to provide entire information about the bank accounts to the FIA.
The inquiry was started in response to a letter from Akbar S. Babar, a founding member of PTI, asking for a review into the party’s receipt of finances through accounts created in employees’ names.
Along with nine other people, the investigating agency also called Asad Qaiser, a prominent PTI politician and former speaker of the National Assembly, and Punjab Minister Mian Mahmoodur Rashid.
Four PTI secretariat personnel were contacted by the FIA on Friday in connection with an investigation into money laundering and financial misappropriation, and their testimonies were recorded. The four staffers and personal secretary of PTI Chairman Imran said in their statements that they had no knowledge of the sources of funding and had no idea who had deposited money into their accounts or where it was utilised after being withdrawn from their bank accounts.
Asad Qaiser tweeted after confirming he had gotten a warning from the FIA, “I want to inform the ‘imported’ government that we are not frightened of such disgusting antics.
He advised them to plant as much as they might later reap, saying that the “imported” administration should refrain from utilising the national institutions to exact political retribution.
Asad Qaiser has been called into the FIA Peshawar office on August 11 at 2:00.
According to the notice sent to the former speaker, Asad Qaiser had two bank accounts and was involved with the operation of those two accounts according to the ruling in the Akbar S. Babar case. As a result, he has been asked to appear before the inquiry team to answer questions regarding the specifics of the bank account.
Five inquiry committees with three members each have been formed by the FIA, according to sources, and one committee has been established at the headquarters for coordination.
According to sources, the committees will carry out their investigations in accordance with the ECP’s directives; terms of reference (ToR) have been published in this respect.
Mohsin Butt, director-general of the FIA, is in charge of all inquiries.
The FIA established a five-person team in Karachi that included Assistant Director Rauf Sheikh, Inspectors Sabeen Ghauri and Aftab Watoo, Sub Inspector Rahat Khan, and Deputy Director Bank Circle Rabia Qureshi.
The central committee, established at the headquarters, will subsequently be informed of the committee’s findings once it has been instructed to look into financing firms, individual bank accounts, and all other financial information.
Imran Ismael and Seema Zia have received notifications from the FIA Sindh, which has also started operating.
On Wednesday, Akbar S. Babar formally requested the FIA open an investigation into the PTI.
He claimed to the FIA that the PTI finance board had improperly authorised four party central secretariat officials to receive donations on their own accounts from both Pakistan and outside in 2011.
According to Akbar Babar’s letter, Rs11.104 million was put into the accounts of PTI personnel, which was more money than they had previously disclosed coming in.
In the meantime, Imran Khan was criticised on Saturday by Marriyum Aurangzeb, minister of information and broadcasting, for allegedly attempting to undermine democracy, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), and the national economy in return for foreign funding that the PTI received over the previous ten years.
She and Coordinator to the Prime Minister for Economy and Energy Bilal Azhar Kayani spoke at a press conference where they claimed that “a conspiracy project, launched by Imran Khan, was executed in the country through the foreign funds, received by his party during different periods, including 2008-13, 2013-18 and 2018-22.”
She said that under the scheme, which was put into force in 2008, Imran Khan tried to undermine the parliamentary system and democracy in 2013.
He started a civil disobedience campaign, encouraged his employees to attack the Supreme Court building, and tried to stop the CPEC by sowing political unrest in the nation.
She said that Imran Khan’s supporters would have to interrogate him about how the foreign financing was used. “These were the milestones, delivery points, and obligations which Imran Khan gave to his contributors in exchange for the foreign funding,” she said.
She claimed that while Imran Khan claimed he erred by authorising Sikander Sultan Raja’s appointment as the chief election commissioner, the primary error really occurred when Nawaz Sharif was removed from office for refusing to accept pay from his son.
Marriyum said that it was wrong to contrast Imran Khan with Nawaz Sharif, who, as prime minister, eradicated terrorism, made sure that the economy grew by 6%, produced a tonne of chances for youth employment, and, most importantly, raised the country’s standing internationally.
She said that the country needs to investigate the causes of the “Imran project,” which resulted in the sale of Kashmir, the suspension of CPEC projects, and a decline in economic development.
The young were made unemployed by Imran Khan’s administration, which also produced unrest, political instability, and the imprisonment of media personnel.
People needed to realise that Imran Khan was to blame for the current difficulties, which were brought about in order to fulfil agreements with foreign sponsors.
She said that following the Election Commission of Pakistan’s ruling in the issue involving the PTI’s illegal fundraising, the so-called sincere and honest Imran Khan had been shamefully exposed in front of the country.
The Political Party Ordinance of 2002 and the Election Act of 2017 both designate the party of a foreign agent to be a “foreign-aided party,” she said.
The minister claimed that Imran Khan was attempting to deceive the public by presenting unrelenting lies over a matter that the ECP had been looking into for eight years.
She said that the PTI chairman had “knowingly” and “willfully” accepted illegal donations from several foreign companies and people, which he admitted to by presenting fraudulent affidavits in the ECP five times.
Marriyum claimed Imran Khan accused others of stealing and blaming them for corruption, but when his heist came to light, he attempted to give it a technical spin. He developed naivety about his party’s finances and dismissed it as a technological issue.
“It is not a technical issue, but rather an open and shut case of foreign funding, as no party is allowed to receive any funding from a foreign government, individual, or company under the Political Parties Order 2002,” she said, adding that the PTI hid the bank accounts into which money was funnelled from abroad.
She noted that the PTI created unauthorised bank accounts in the names of the party’s secretariat staff and said that Imran Khan had misused contributions by using them for political and private reasons.
She emphasised that the public needed to realise that the issue included the former premier, the State Bank of Pakistan, and the ECP rather than the PTI and the PMLN. The PMLN has nothing to do with the case of foreign funding, she said, and it was brought by one of its own members, Akbar S. Babar.
The minister claimed that Imran Khan continued to be a significant impediment to the foreign funding case’s progress, which the ECP called in its verdict as “the biggest misuse of law had occurred.”
She said that Imran Khan used money he had received from Pakistanis living abroad for flood relief efforts and other natural catastrophes for political and personal gain.
According to Marriyum, the senior PTI leadership, including Imran Khan, signed off on the money his party received in the shady bank accounts.
“Details of the unreported bank accounts and the money trail of the PTI’s foreign funding have come to light. The masks of “Sadiq” and “Ameen” have been lifted from Imran Khan’s face, and he has been labelled a criminal, she said.
She criticised PTI for releasing phoney interviews with foreign Pakistanis who claimed to be its financiers on its social media pages, saying “Imran Khan has not disputed that he did not get money from Romita Shetty (an Indian businesswoman) and Wootton Cricket Limited.”
She dared Imran Khan to publish the interview with Arif Naqvi and other foreigners and company members who contributed to his party with dollars, pounds, and other money.
She said that Arif Naqvi was used as a cover to hide the true names of other foreign suppliers.
From 2013, she added, PTI got funding from Wootton Cricket Limited, Bristol Engineering Services, and Eplanet Trustees. She further mentioned that 34 foreign people were employed by the American-based firms.
She said that PTI had revealed it had established LLCs 5975 and 6160 in other countries. In LLC 5975, 13 foreign nationals and 231 businesses donated money, but in the other, 31 foreign nationals and 120 businesses did. PTI established more businesses to attract international investment. She said that 31 firms had contributed money, but Imran kept denying knowing about the illegal fundraising. If the money were utilised for political reasons, she continued, “there was no technicality.”
She said that PTI has revealed the identities of the front people who had gathered the money from several nations. She said that their videos were public.
The State Bank of Pakistan and ECP both found evidence that Imran Khan had committed a crime.
Muhammad Arshad, Tahir Iqbal, Muhammad Rafique, and Nauman Afzal are just a few of the party secretariat staffers whose accounts Imran Khan received money from but he never disclosed to the ECP.
She said that the FIA inquiry was ongoing and was being handled transparently.
She said that other PTI leaders including Asad Qaiser, Imran Ismail, Shah Farman, Saifullah Niazi, and others had got the payments in their own accounts. In this instance, Imran Khan and members of the finance boards co-signed for these accounts.
Along with naming a few foreign financiers, the minister also cited Mukesh Kanda, Charn Jeet Singh, Charles, Michael, and others. Ironically, Imran Khan was unaware that his party was still receiving financing.
She claimed that Imran Khan launched the regime transition storyline to hide his corruption and that as a result, Bani Gala became known as “Money Gala.”
“This charade must cease now that a foreign agent has been apprehended and the PTI has been labelled a foreign-aided party,” she yelled.
As the ECP had made a judgement on Akbar S. Babar’s petition, who had filed a complaint against the funds received by the party up till 2013, she said that it was only a preview of Imran Khan’s foreign funding and that the whole movie had not yet been released.
