According to FIA sources, the accounts were used to transfer funds from Wootton Cricket Club, from which huge sums came to Pakistan.

Sources said that Tariq Shafi had opened Insaaf Trust.

FIA has frozen the accounts of Shafi and summoned him for an answer.

An interim ban has been imposed on Tariq Shafi and Arif Naqvi from travelling abroad.

On August 6, FIA identified five more PTI companies saying that the companies were not declared in PTI’s assets report submitted to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).

“These companies are located in USA, England, Australia, Belgium and Canada, some of which are closed and some are still active,” the FIA sources revealed.

FIA sources said that all these companies of were registered under different names.

The FIA then issued notices to the chairman and general secretary of the PTI to investigate the issue of prohibited funding and to provide details of party fund records.