All Funds From Wootton Cricket Ltd Transferred Thru Bank, Claims Farrukh.

LAHORE -- PTI leader Farrukh Habib Friday said that all the funds that the party received from Wootton Cricket Ltd, a Cayman Islands-incorporated company owned by Pakistani businessman Arif Naqvi, were transferred though a bank.

'All the records [related to those transactions] are available,' the party's central deputy information secretary told a press conference after a Financial Times report revealed that Naqvi 'transferred three instalments directly to the PTI in 2013 adding up to a total of $2.12m' - which were of foreign origin.

The PTI leader said that there was no case against Naqvi or his Abraaj Group in 2012 and that the businessman had given APS20 million to PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and his brother, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, as 'bribes'.

'Naqvi also hosted a dinner for Nawaz [in Davos], they should respond to these claims as well,' he demanded.

The party has been embroiled in a foreign funding case since 2014, filed by PTI's founding member Akbar S Babar. An Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) scrutiny committee later in 2022 revealed that the PTI hid funds worth millions of rupees from the ECP - but the party rejects these claims.

In his press conference on Friday, Habib said that a 'media trial' is conducted against the party every now and then related to foreign funding.

'The case against PTI is not related to foreign funding, rather it is of prohibited funding [...] foreign funds are used for working against an incumbent government; that's not the case here,' he said.

Habib said that his party laid the foundation of fundraising in Pakistan. He added that Overseas Pakistanis send $32 billion annually to the country and they also donate to PTI.

He reiterated that the verdicts of PTI, PPP, and PML-N's foreign funding cases be issued on the same date as he demanded that the ECP demonstrate 'responsible' behaviour.

The PTI leader claimed that the PML-N hid 112 accounts from the Election Commission, PPP hid 11 and did not give records of Rs3.6 million to the ECP.

Before Habib, PTI PTI Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry defended...

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