The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Commercial Banking Circle Islamabad has obtained arrest warrants for six accused including PTI leaders Saifullah Khan Niazi and Aamir Kayani in the prohibited funding case.
\nPTI chief Imran Khan, members of the party\u2019s financial team and manager of a private bank were also nominated in the case.
\nThe PTI chief was granted interim bail earlier this month in the prohibited funding case by a court in Islamabad.
\nSources said arrest warrants have been obtained for other suspects including Tariq Rahim, Hamid Zaman and Manzoor Ahmed and the FIA has formed teams for their arrest.
\nThe case
\nThe FIA had booked PTI leaders including party chairman Imran Khan, the party\u2019s financial team and a manager of a private bank in the prohibited funding case.
\nThe case was lodged by FIA Commercial Banking Circle Islamabad.
\nAccording to a first information report (FIR), the former ruling party leaders have violated the Foreign Exchange Act and they were declared as the beneficiaries of suspicious bank accounts.
\nThe FIA claimed that Abraaj Group also transferred $2.1 million to the bank accounts of the PTI.
\nThe FIA kicked off its probe against the PTI in August this year after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had declared in its verdict that the party had indeed received illegal funding.
\nThe case had been filed by PTI’s founding but disgruntled member Akbar S Babar and had been pending since November 14, 2014.
\nThe written order of the ECP stated that the political party had received illegal funds from foreign countries including the US, UAE, UK and Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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