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KARACHI: A team of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) State Bank Circled raided the residence of Tariq Shafi in Karachi in the wee hours of Friday morning.
Reports gathered by the MM News revealed that the FIA team had camped outside the residence last night and waited for the court orders to conduct a thorough search in the house.
This morning, the FIA team accompanied by lady searchers entered the house and started digging for case-related pieces of evidence. MM News has learnt that at least 2 cell phones have been seized by the raiding party.
Tariq Shafi, it may be mentioned here, was named as accused in the case of illegal transfer of funds from abroad. The case got fame due to political rhetoric by the incumbent government which repeatedly branded it as a foreign funding case.
The FIA, which is run by Federal Minister Rana Sanaullah of PMLN, registered a case FIR No. 14/2022 on October 5 in State Bank Circle Karachi, after which the raiding party camped outside the residence of PTI leader last night.
It is also pertinent to mention here that prominent PTI leaders, Syed Arif Masood Naqvi, Tariq Shafi and Mohammad Rafi Lakhani have been named as accused in the case for their alleged involvement of illegal transfer of funds from domestic and foreign firms.