Bihar: Enforcement Directorate begins money laundering probe into PFI case

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has launched a money laundering probe into a recent “terror module” unearthed by Bihar Police with the arrest of three people for their alleged links with extremist organisation PFI and their plans to indulge in “anti-India” activities, officials said Tuesday. Mohammad Jallauddin, a retired Jharkhand Police officer, and Athar Parvez were arrested on 13 July from the Phulwari Sharif area of state capital Patna while Nuruddin Jangi was arrested three days later from Lucknow by Uttar Pradesh ATS, on the request of Bihar Police. “They (Jallauddin and Parvez) were teaching locals how to use swords and knives and also instigating them for communal violence. They have links with PFI,” the Patna police had said. Several objectionable documents pertaining to Islamic extremism have been seized from their possession, they said. Police said they recovered two pamphlets written in English – India 2047: Towards rule of Islamic India and Popular Front of India, 20 February, 2021 after searches were conducted against Jallauddin and Parvez. The UP Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) had said that Nuruddin “confessed” during interrogation that he came in contact with the Popular Front of India (PFI) Darbhanga district president in 2015 and has been associated with the organisation ever since. The ED, officials said, has taken cognisance of this Patna police FIR and has clubbed it in its wider probe being conducted by it against PFI, its members and linked persons. The agency will question the accused arrested by police and probe to find the funds transacted by them and if “proceeds of crime” were generated by them through money laundering, the officials said. The ED has been investigating PFI’s alleged “financial links” on charges of fuelling the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests in the country, the Delhi riots that took place in February, 2020, alleged conspiracy in the Hathras (a UP district) case of alleged gangrape and death of a Dalit woman and a few other instances. The Islamist organisation was formed in 2006 in Kerala and is headquartered in Delhi. The agency has filed two charge sheets against PFI and its office bearers before a special PMLA court in Lucknow. The agency, last month, attached bank deposits of more than Rs 68.62 lakh of PFI and its “front” organisation Rehab India Foundation as part of these probes. Also read: _**PFI threat: Why India should not underestimate Muslim Brotherhood's tentacles**_ _**Why West is so uncomfortable with rising India and happy to sponsor its enemies**_ _**PFI member wanted by Bihar police arrested by UP ATS**_ _**Right Word | Comparison between RSS and PFI is absurd and unfair**_ _**Explained: Who are the PFI that Patna senior cop compared to the RSS?**_ _**'An Islamic rule by 2047': Suspected terror module bust in Bihar unearths chilling details**_ _**Retired Jharkhand cop among two arrested in Bihar for terror links**_ Popular Front of India: A clear and present danger to the nation’s security Read all the Latest News , Trending News , Cricket News , Bollywood News , India News and Entertainment News here. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.