ISLAMABAD: The federal interior ministry has given go-ahead to the FIA to register cases against PTI chairman and other party leaders for their involvement in undeclared Benami Accounts with huge financial.
According to FIA, six different investigative teams of the agency were probing various transactions linked to PTI, including through 11 ‘benami’ accounts.
Imran Khan is the signatory to two of the accounts and in one account, around $51,000 were transacted, Samaa TV claimed today.
Moreover, through another account in a private bank in Islamabad, a transaction worth Rs86 million was recorded. Imran Khan is being termed 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 being managed by Asad Qaiser, while 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.
