ISLAMABAD: The federal government has given permission to the Federal Investigation agency (FIA) to register the case against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on undeclared financial transactions, a private TV channel reported on Friday while qutoting credible sources.
According to the sources, the federal interior ministry has given the FIA greenlight to register cases against bigwigs of the party for falsification and failure to declare foreign financial transactions, the reported added. The case will be registered as per evidence acquired by FIA.
The agency said that six different investigative teams of the agency have been probing various transactions linked to PTI, including through 11 ‘benami’ accounts.
Of these, the FIA claimed, Imran Khan is the signatory on two of the accounts.
The documents further revealed that in one account, around $51,000 were transacted.
Moreover, through another account in a private bank in Islamabad, a transaction worth Rs86 million was recorded.Imran Khan is reportedly the beneficiary of both financial transactions.
The documents further said that Saifullah Niazai and Sardar Azhar are also signatories of these accounts.
The documents further pointed out that other evidence points to the presence of eight undeclared accounts, including one in Karachi which is allegedly handled by PTI leader and former planning minister Asad Umer.
Another account is in Lahore which is allegedly managed by Mian Mehmoodur Rashid.
An account traced to Peshawar is reportedly managed by Asad Qaiser, PTI Quetta is handled by former deputy speaker Qasim Suri with undeclared transections of more than Rs20 million.
Imran Ismail is said to be the manager of a separate Karachi account along with Tariq Shafi and Saifullah Niazi.
