Enforcement Directorate, ED, has issued a Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) show cause notice to an alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative and two Delhi-based hawala dealers in connection with a terror financing case. The central probe agency said, it had issued the notice under provisions of the FEMA against Mohammed Ayub Mir and two other Delhi-based hawala dealers, Bech Raj Bengani and Harbans Singh.<br/><br/>It said, Mir was an active member of Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba and was arrested by the special cell of the Delhi Police while collecting 7 lakh rupees through hawala dealing from Singh on instructions of a London-based entity.<br/><br/>The ED in a statement said that Mir has confessed his association with the LeT was involved in collecting and delivering money through hawala for the terrorist organisation. Singh has also admitted that he was engaged in delivering the hawala payments on the instructions of Bengani.<br/><br/>Mir and Singh were also convicted under POTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act) in 2004. The ED said that further adjudication proceedings against the suspects under FEMA will follow.
News On AIR | October 6, 2017 6:43 PM
Terror financing case: ED issues FEMA notice to LeT operative, hawala dealers