ED files PMLA case against Falah-e-Insaniyat

New Delhi, Feb 9 The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money laundering case against Pakistan-based outfit Falah-e-Insaniyat (FIF), a front for restricted dread gathering Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the organization said Saturday.

It said a criminal case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) has been filed by the central probe agency for the outfit's "involvement in money laundering through various hawala channels."

The ED said it took cognisance of a National Investigation Agency (NIA) FIR, documented under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) a year ago in September, to record its own case against the Falah-e-Insaniyat.

The NIA has carried out searches in this case in the past and has seized more than four dozen SIM cards, telephones and Rs 1.56 crore (suspected) money and captured four people till now in the case.

The ED said one of the arrested accused in the case, Delhi-based Mohammed Salman, was in "regular touch with a Dubai-based Pakistan national, who in turn was connected with the deputy chief of FIF."

Salman is asserted to have received funds from FIF operators through hawala and he and different people were accounted for to have gotten cash illicitly from various people of Pakistan and UAE among others, the office said.

"These funds were used to carry out terrorist activities and create unrest in India," the ED said in a statement.

The office said its probe will "establish money trail and identify proceeds of crime that are suspected to be generated out of the criminal activities.