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| Exemplary action: ED attaches Shabir Shah’s building in terror funding case | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 4: Taking exemplary action against anti-national elements, the Enforcement Directorate on Friday attached the building of jailed separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah, who is president of the Democratic Freedom Party.
Shabir Ahmed Shah is presently lodged in Delhi’s Tihar jail in connection with the money laundering case to fund terror groups active in Kashmir Valley.
“Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has provisionally attached an immovable property situated at Botshah Colony, Sanat Nagar, Police Station Barzulla, Srinagar of the value of Rs. 21.80 lakhs in the name of Shabir Ahmad Shah son of Ghulam Mohammad Shah under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002”, a statement issued by ED on Friday reads.
ED initiated the money laundering investigation on the basis of a FIR dated 30.05.2017 against Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and others under various sections of IPC and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), 1967.
“During the course of the investigation, it was revealed that Shabir Ahmad Shah was actively involved in the activities of fuelling unrest in Kashmir valley by way of stone pelting, processions, protests, bandhs, hartals, and other subversive activities,” the ED pointed out in its official communique.
Investigation under PMLA revealed that Shabir Ahmad Shah was involved in receiving funds from the terrorist organization Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) and other terrorist outfits based in Pakistan as well as from the Pakistani establishment through hawala and various other means and channels and these funds were then being used for fuelling and supporting militant activities in the Kashmir Valley.
During the course of the investigation, an immovable property worth Rs. 21.80 lakhs owned in the name of Shabir Ahmad Shah was identified and the same has been provisionally attached under PMLA.
Shabir Shah was arrested on July 25, 2017 in the case in which the Special Cell of Delhi Police had also arrested Aslam Wani.
Shabir Shah was arrested in connection with over a decade-old money laundering case against him for alleged terror financing.
Shah was arrested in Srinagar and brought to Delhi tomorrow. Earlier the the ED had issued multiple summons to Shah, but he never deposed before the agency.
A Delhi court in 2017 had issued a non-bailable warrant against the separatist leader.
The agency had issued several summons to Shah over the last few years in pursuance of the August 2005 case, wherein the Delhi Police’s Special Cell had arrested Mohammed Aslam Wani (35), an alleged hawala dealer, who had claimed that he passed on Rs 2.25 crore to Shah.
The ED had registered a criminal case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act against Shah and Wani. Wani was arrested allegedly with Rs 63 lakh, received through “hawala” channels from the Middle East, in 2005. |
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