ED chargesheets 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed & others for terror-financing in PMLA probe

Cracking down on terror-financing, Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday, filed a charge sheet against Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed, his deputy Shahid Mehmood, a Delhi-based hawala dealer Mohamm Salim, Dubai businessman Mohamm Kamran and ors in connection with a money-laundering probe. ncy h initiated a probe against Mohamm Salman and Mohamm Salim based on a 2018 NIA probe. Both Salman and Salim have been arrested.

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ED chargesheets Hafiz Saeed

ED released a statement saying that Salman was involved receiving funds from Pakistan-based Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation (FiF) through 'hawala channels', helping LeT raise funds and build a network. Salman allegedly received  Rs 4.69 crore through FiF and its members, stated ED. ncy said it has attached three properties of Salman in New Delhi worth Rs 73.12 lakh. While UN has designated FiF as a terrorist organization in 2012, India followed it in 2016.

"Investigation under PMLA revealed that funds were re-routed from Pakistan to Dubai and furr to India through Hawala channels. Mohd. Salman was recipient of funds sent by Mohd. Kamran and his associates Abdul Aziz Behlim and Arif Gulambashir Dharampuria, in Dubai. Mohd Salman used funds received from abro for construction of Masjid at Uttawar, Distt. Palwal, Haryana and marris of poor girls of in and around area of vill Uttawar," said ED.

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Earlier on August 18, Pakistan imposed sanctions on 88 terrorists complying to new UNSC's list, including Dawood Ibrahim, Hafiz Saeed, Masood Azhar, ordering seizure of all of ir properties and freezing of bank accounts. Previously in July, bank accounts of 26/11 mastermind - Hafeez Saeed who has been lodged in Kot Lakhpat jail for terror financing was restored. Ahe of FATF plenary meet, on February 12, Saeed was convicted under ATA Section 11-F (2) and 11-N. 

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Hafiz Saeed conviction and FATF meet

Ahe of FATF plenary meet, on February 12, 26/11 mastermind, Hafiz Saeed was convicted under ATA Section 11-F (2) and 11-N. ditionally, he has been slapped with a fine of Rs15,000 in each case. This came even after Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Lahore accepted his plea to club all pending cases against him and n anunce verdict. 26/11 mastermind and UN-designated terrorist - Hafiz Saeed h pleed t guilty but was convicted and sent to high-security Kot Lakhpat jail in Pakistan.

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Saeed's JuD is front organisation for Lashkar-e-Taiba which is responsible for carrying out 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, including six Americans. Saeed, an UN-designated terrorist also has a 10 million USD bounty placed on him by American government in 2012. He was listed as a terrorist under UN Security Council Resolution 1267 in December 2008. 

(Im: PTI)