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| Probe rising hawala cases, Centre tells JK | | Money brought via Dubai, Nepal, Bangladesh | | Peerzada Ummer
Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 2: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has informed the Jammu and Kashmir government about intelligence inputs suggesting rise in pumping of hawala money into the state.
Sources said the security grid has been asked to check the source of the illegal foreign funds being pumped into the state for separatist activities, and to take action in this regard.
Earlier, Minister of State for Home, Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary said as per inputs, there are reports of illegal inflow of foreign funds through hawala and inward remittances.
"There are also inputs that fake Indian currency notes predominantly produced in Pakistan are being smuggled into India through various international routes via Dubai, Nepal and Bangladesh," he said replying to a written question.
Chaudhary said the matter was raised with Pakistani authorities on several occasions under the bilateral composite and resumed dialogues.
Meanwhile, sources informed that the intelligence agencies are being asked to investigate the matter at priority and check the route of the funds being given to various separatist leaders from the neighbouring Pakistan.
Reports informed that the GOI was paying special attention to check illegal funding of separatists and terror groups in Kashmir and had constituted Combating of Funding of Terrorist (CFT) cell within the Union Home Ministry to monitor it. It was maintained further that CFT is the first-ever such cell and functions under the Ministry of Home Affairs an officer of the Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax) was directed to head it. "It is a nodal office among various probe agencies to deal exclusively with cases of terror financing and instances of money laundering for such activities," revealed the reports.
Department of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Intelligence Bureau (IB), Income Tax Department, Enforcement Directorate, CBI and Directorate General of Customs and Central Excise Intelligence work in liaison over the issue and later scrutinise information collected from central police organisations and the Financial Intelligence Unit.
Pertinently, a Terror Funding and Fake Currency (TFFC) Cell in National Investigation Agency (NIA) has also been constituted to focus on investigating the flow of money into anti-national activities.
Last year, separatist Shabir Shah was caught in the ED net when he had allegedly received Rs 50 lakh
Furthermore, reports informed that there are no less than 18 hawala cases under scrutiny before the Enforcement Directorate and that the names of several separatists and top businessmen were under the radar. |
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