ED attaches assets in Delhi linked to Hafiz Saeed

The EnforcementDirectorate Thursday attached assets worth Rs 73 lakh in connection with amilitancy financing and money laundering case linked to Hafiz Muhammad Saeedand Pakistan-based proscribed group Falah-e-Insaniyat (FIF).

The ED as part of itsaction against militancy financing in the country, including those linked toseparatists and militants operating in the Kashmir valley, has identifiedassets and proceeds of crime worth Rs 212 crore in the last five months or soand has filed 13 charge sheets in these cases.

   

On Thursday, aprovisional order was issued under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act(PMLA) and a residential flat and shop in Delhi, and cash and bank balancebelonging to a person named Mohd Salman were attached in a case being probedagainst FIF, the agency said.

The FIF was founded byJamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD)  and Lashkar-e-Taiba(LeT) chief Hafiz Saeed.

The ED had filed acriminal case in this regard in February after taking cognisance of a NationalInvestigation Agency (NIA) FIR.

In the case, the NIA hadcarried out searches in the past and had seized over four dozen SIM cards,phones and Rs 1.56 crore cash, and arrested four people, including Salman.

Salman, who was based inDelhi, was in “regular touch with a Dubai-based Pakistan national, who inturn was connected with the deputy chief of the FIF”, the ED and NIA haveclaimed.

The ED, in a statement,said, “Salman had received huge funds from Mohammed Kamran from Dubaithrough different Hawala operatives, including Mohd Salim alias Mama.”

“The funds receivedby Salman were claimed to have been used for construction of a mosque atUttawar in Haryana’s Palwal district,” the ED alleged.

Probe revealed thatSalman used to “send the receipt of funds received and photographs ofconstruction work to Kamran through e-mail.”

“Immovable andmovable assets located in Delhi of accused Mohd Salman and his family memberstotalling worth Rs 73.12 lakh have been provisionally attached,” it said.

Salman, at present, islodged at the Tihar jail in connection with the NIA case.

He is alleged to havereceived funds from FIF operators through Hawala and he and others werereported to have received money illegally from various persons, including thosein Pakistan and the UAE, the ED had said earlier.

The FIF was designated asa terror organisation by the United Nations in March, 2012 and Hafiz Saeed isits “key mentor”. Stamped as a terror organisation by the Centre in August 2016, the FIFacted “like a humanitarian front doing religious and charity work only tocreate disguise in the minds of people and states”, the ED said.

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