ED attaches assets worth Rs 7.32 lakh in J&K terror funding case
New Delhi, June 30: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday said it has issued a provisional attachment order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to seize assets worth Rs 7.32 lakh of Aijaz Hussain Khawaja, a resident of Baramulla in Jammu & Kashmir, in connection with a 2006 terror funding case.
The attached assets consist of a portion of a residential flat at Jangpura in New Delhi and balances in the bank account held by the wife of Khawaja, the ED said in an official statement.
Khawaja was apprehended in 2006 with one bag containing 2.05 kg RDX and Rs 49 lakhs in cash by Delhi Police Special Cell.
He was later convicted with seven years of imprisonment under section 5(b) of Explosive Substances Act along with Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the cash held by him was confiscated by the trial court.
The money laundering probe by the ED under PMLA revealed that the accused was operating as a hawala operator for financing various terror related activities in Jammu and Kashmir.
“Out of such illegal hawala operation, he had generated proceeds of crime to the tune of Rs 8.50 lakh during that period and he was also in touch with Muktiar Ahmed Bhatt alias Ahmed, a Pakistan-based Lashakr-e-Taiba (LeT) operative in league with Pakistan's ISI to undertake hawala transactions or dealings for various separatists and militant activities,” the ED said in the statement.
