FIA gets two-day physical remand of PTI leader in funding case

Hamid Zaman is accused of using charity money for political purposes

A district court in Lahore on Saturday granted Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) two-day physical remand of PTI founding member Hamid Zaman in the prohibited funding case.

Zaman was taken into custody from his office on Waris Road in Lahore yesterday.

According to Express News, Judicial Magistrate Ghulam Murtaza of Lahore District Court conducted hearing on the case today. The FIA Lahore produced Zaman before the district court.

FIA requested the court for 14-day physical remand of the accused and said that PTI leader received ‘foreign funding’ in various bank accounts.

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The investigation agency told the court that it traced an amount of Rs60 million in one of the suspicious accounts being operated from the United States.

Sources revealed that in 2013, Zaman was the secretary of Insaf Trust, which received $625,000 in its accounts, adding that the party’s welfare organisation had not met the rules and regulations.

FIA said the charity money was used for political purposes.

After hearing the FIA arguments, the court granted the two-day remand and ordered the federal agency ​​to produce Zaman again on Monday.