Imran’s arrest on cards as FIA summons him in funding case

The Federal Investigation Company (FIA) on Sunday modified the prohibited funding case towards former prime minister Imran Khan right into a cash laundering case, naming the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief as the primary accused.

The nation’s premier investigation company has additionally served a discover and summoned Imran within the case with the sources aware about the event saying that he might be arrested if he doesn’t seem.

The FIA Karachi chapter has despatched notices to the PTI chief at his residences in Islamabad and Lahore, in search of his look within the case on October 31.

Imran Khan has been directed to seem earlier than FIA on Monday, October 31 with the required paperwork.

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In response to sources, if Imran Khan doesn’t seem earlier than the FIA, he’s prone to be arrested because the PTI chairman has not approached the courtroom for his protecting bail.

They stated that three senior leaders of PTI from Karachi are additionally prone to be arrested within the case. An FIA workforce will depart to Islamabad or Lahore to arrest Imran if he doesn’t seem on Monday.

The FIA kicked off its probe towards the PTI in August this yr after the Election Fee of Pakistan (ECP) had declared in its verdict that the social gathering had certainly obtained unlawful funding.

The case had been filed by PTI’s founding however disgruntled member Akbar S Babar and had been pending since November 14, 2014.

The written order of the ECP acknowledged that the political social gathering had obtained unlawful funds from overseas international locations together with the US, UAE, UK and Australia.