The prime accused in the Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF) terror funding accused Salman had confessed to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) that he has received funds from Pakistani operatives during the last five years.
Salman is one of the main accused in the terror funding case and is presently in NIA custody.
“Salman has admitted that he was receiving funds from a Pakistani national based in Dubai. During the last five years he received funds to the tune of Rs 1 crore as per his confessions so far,” a senior NIA official said.
NIA suspects he is one of the handlers of FIF, a social welfare arm of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Tayyeba as ince was in direct touch with the deputy chief of FIF.
Salman still maintains that he was not aware that there were terror links to the money he was receiving for the last five years.
During interrogation, Salman has admitted that he was receiving funds for the last five years and utilising the money in his home district Palwal in Haryana for community services like marriage, building houses, building and running the local mosque in his home district and funding family members of terrorists whom they considered as martyrs.
Arrested accused Salman is from Uttawar, Mewat region of Haryana. His father shifted to Nizamuddin area of the national capital before his birth. He married a local Mewati lady and has five children.
He started a tour and taxi service besides a dairy products business in Delhi but incurred losses.
He had visited Saudi Arabia for Umrah. He also visited Dubai few years back where he met few Pakistani nationals and thereafter he started getting funds through Hawala.
He claimed that he has spent all the funds on religious activities in Uttawar and in local areas but kept no records.