Minister of State for Petroleum Musadik Malik said the cricket club was established in Oxfordshire county of England to launder the money and legitimate the ill-gotten money, under the pretext of holding fundraising activities and charity work.
“Two million pounds were sent from Abraj’s company account to Imran Khan in one go…which was illegal as no political party can get funds from any foreign country, company, corporation or foreign national. But he [Imran Khan) is still Sadiq-o-Amin,” he said.
The minister recalled that there was a Bahria Town case, heard by the Supreme Court, in which billions of rupees fine was imposed on Malik Riaz.
He said Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) unearthed around £190 million ($250 million) money-laundering of Malik Riaz, but the PTI government and its cabinet, under a ‘secret document’ settled the SC fine amount with the money remitted by Britain it recovered in the money-laundering case.
In return, he said, Malik Riaz gave 400-450 Kanal land to Imran Khan and his wife for establishing a ‘Trust’ in addition to millions of pounds.
He said ex-SAPM on Accountability Shehzad Akbar fled from the country after smelling that now the corruption of PTI leaders would be exposed and arrested subsequently.
He said a book ‘The Key Man’, authored by Simon Clark who also reported Arif Naqvi’s money-laundering in the daily FinancialTimes, carried all details about Imran Khan, Abraj Capital and Investment and the Cricket Club.
He said Simon Clark revealed in the book that the same person (Arif Naqvi) allocated $ 20 million to ‘buy’ the PML-N during 2013-18, but found no one in the party to protect his ‘some interests’ in Pakistan. But unfortunately, the minister said, in 2018 Arif Naqvi ‘bought’ Imran Khan for just $2 million, he added.