Lagatar24 Desk
Srinagar, Nov 4: The Enforcement Directorate announced on Friday that it had seized Shabir Ahmad Shah’s, the leader of the Jammu and Kashmir separatist movement Srinagar residence as part of a money laundering investigation connected to a case of fostering terrorist activities in the union territory.
The attached property is worth Rs 21.80 lakh.
Based on a FIR filed against terrorist Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and others in Pakistan under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the ED launched a money laundering probe (UAPA).
“The property was attached in an ongoing money laundering case registered in May 2017 naming Shabir Ahmad Shah & Lashkar-e-Taiba co-founder Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, others under various sections of IPC & UAPA,” said ED.
ED has attached a Srinagar-based property of separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah valued Rs 21.80 lakh under provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act: ED
— ANI (@ANI) November 4, 2022
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ED investigation revealed tha he was actively involved in activities of fuelling unrest in Kashmir valley by way of stone pelting, processions, protests and other subversive activities. He also received funds from terrorist organisation Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) and others in Pakistan.
