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ED attaches  PFI’s 35 immovable  properties worth Rs 56.56 crore

By our Special Correspondent

New  Delhi:  The  Enforcement Directorate (ED)  has attached  35 immovable properties  worth  Rs 56.56  crore in connection with  the  money laundering probe against the  banned Popular Front of India (PFI).

The  outfit  had more  than 13,000 active members in Singapore, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United  Arab  Emirates , the  agency said here on Oct 18.

The  ED probe is  based on various   cases registered by the National Investigation Agency (NIA)  and other enforcement agencies.

“Investigations revealed  that the office bearers , members and cadre of PFI were conspiring  and raisinf/collecting  funds from within  India and abroad  through banking channels, ‘hawala’, donations etc. for  committing and financing  terrorist acts across India”, the agency added.

According to the ED, the outfit  raised  funds  to  the  tune  of Rs 94  crore from different  parts of  the  country and  abroad. The  money  was  deposited in its 29 bank  accounts  in Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telengana, Delhi, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Bihar West  Bengal, Assam, Jammu and  Kashmir and Manipur.

It has  so far  arrested  26  accused  persons linked  to the  proscribed outfit and submitted  nine  prosecution complaints in the  case  from February 2021 to May 2024.  The Ed said that  the “eal objectives of PFI include  formation of  an organization for  carrying out  an Islamic movement in India through Jihad, though PFI masquerades itself as  a  social movement”.

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