Imran Khan was arrested by Pakistan's federal investigation team for misusing funds: Report

 Digital Desk: Imran Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), and other PTI officials have reportedly been charged with illegal funding by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). According to local media sources, the party's financial team and a manager of a private bank were also arrested in the case.

The FIA's Corporate Banking Circle in Islamabad received the complaint. Arif Masood Naqvi, the owner of Wooton Cricket Limited, allegedly transferred "ill-gotten" funds to a United Bank Limited (UBL) account that was opened in the name of the Khan's party, according to a first information report (FIR) in the case.

In the complaint, the beneficiaries and signatories of the party's account were identified as Imran Khan, Sardar Azhar Tariq Khan, Saifullah Khan Nyazee, Syed Yunus Ali Raza, Aamer Mehmood Kiani, Tariq Rahim Sheikh, Tariq Shafi, Faisal Maqbool Shaikh, Hamid Zaman, and Manzoor Ahmad Chaudhary.

According to the complaint, the "agreed transfer" purpose was used in the fast messages of the transactions to conceal the monies' true nature, origin, location, transportation, and ownership.

The FIR claims that the party's leaders broke the Foreign Exchange Act and were identified as the owners of questionable bank accounts.

The FIR further stated that Naqvi was being tried for scamming investors in the US and the UK.

"PTI presented an affidavit signed by Arif Masood Naqvi to the Pakistani Election Commission indicating that all funds collected in WCL's accounts were transferred to PTI's account in Pakistan. This affidavit has been shown to be false or falsified because two further transactions from WCL to two different accounts in Pakistan were conducted in May 2013, according to the FIR.

In its ruling on the PTI issue involving unlawful donations last month, the Election Commission found that the party had actually received such funding.

The party received financing from Wootton Cricket Limited, according to a three-member ECP bench led by Chief Election Commissioner Sikander (CEC) Sultan Raja. It said that the party was a "willing recipient" of USD 2,121,500 in illegal funds.