The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed prosecution complaint (charge-sheet in police parlance) against Hafiz Mohammad Sayeed (founder of terror group Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, Jamaat-Ud-Dawa and Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation, Pakistan) and others in a terror funding case.
Sayeed’s Deputy Shahid Mehmood, Mohammad Kamran, a Dubai-based Pakistani, Mohammad Salim alias Mama, a Delhi-based hawala operator and one Mohammad Salman have also been charged under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in the ongoing investigations in a terror financing case.
The ED began probe under PMLA based on a chargesheet filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) against these accused persons under various sections of the IPC and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. The Accused Mohammad Salman has been found to be involved in receiving funds, from FIF operators and his associates, through illegally operated hawala channels.
Probe under PMLA revealed that funds were re-routed from Pakistan to Dubai and further to India through hawala channels. Salman was the recipient of funds sent by Mohammad Kamran and his associates Abdul Aziz Behlim and Arif Gulambashir Dharampuria, in Dubai. Documents seized from the house of Mohammad Salman, Mohammad Salim and Mohammad Arif Gulambashir Dharampuria during the searches held by NIA and email correspondence reflect these hawala transactions by Mohd. Uzair to Kamran.