islamabad pakistans federal investigation agency fia has identified four employees of the pakistan tehreekeinsaf pti secretariat whose personal and salary accounts were used for receiving foreign fundingnews international newspaper reported that the agency said funds were received in the bank accounts of muhammad arshad tahir iqbal muhammad rafique and nauman afzalin the statements the pti employees that they used to give the money received in their accounts to the imran khan partys finance manager as per the reportthey said they would give signed blank cheques to the finance manager according to the publication the fia came to know during the investigation that besides other accounts foreign funding was also received in employees salary accountsfia has earlier constituted a sixmember team to probe into pti prohibited funding casethis investigation came days after the threemember election commission of pakistan bench in a unanimous verdict ruled that the pti received prohibited funding in the case pending since 2014 ary news reportedon august 4 the pakistan government decided to file a disqualification reference against pakistan tehreekeinsaf pti chairman imran khan after the verdict of the prohibited funding case and the federal cabinet accepted the recommendationpakistans information minister marriyum aurangzeb said in her press conference that the pti used overall 16 bank accounts that were not found on the records she alleged that pti used donations to the charity as party funds and an inquiry will be conducted into itfor the first time in pakistan a political party is declared a foreignfunded party the accounts of the pti secretariat employees were used for foreign funding she addedaurangzeb said that pti was declared a foreignfunded party in light of the ecp verdict according to ary newsthe commission found that the donations were taken from 34 countries in fundraising these included america australia and the uae geo news reportedthe ecp also said that the pti had taken funds from an american businessmanin its verdict the ecp observed the unknown accounts and said that hiding accounts are a violation of the constitutionmoreover it found that pti chairman imran khan submitted a false nomination form ithe ecp decided to issue a showcause notice to the pti to explain why the commission should not seize the funds it receivedaccording to the publication the ecp had released the cause list for the case the cause list showed that the verdict would be announced by a threemember bench led by chief election commissioner cec sikandar sultan raja who arrived early in the morning at the office