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Ed files charge sheet against three members of Pfi

New Delhi. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday filed a charge sheet in a court here against banned organization ‘Popular Front of India’ and three of its members in a money laundering case related to illegal activities. The charge sheet is likely to come up for hearing on November 21 before the court of Special Judge Shailendra Malik.

In this, apart from PFI, Parvez Ahmed, Mohammad Ilyas and Abdul Mukit have also been named as accused. ED’s special public prosecutor N.K. According to the chargesheet filed by Matta, accused Ahmed was the president of PFI’s Delhi unit while Mohd Ilyas was its general secretary and Abdul Mukit was the office secretary.

The accused were arrested on September 22 in the case related to alleged money laundering of Rs 120 crore over the years. The Center had banned the PFI in late September over its alleged links with terror activities.

The ED claimed in the chargesheet that the investigation conducted so far revealed that the accused and other members associated with the said organization collected donations through donations, hawala, bank accounts, which were used to carry out illegal activities. According to the charge sheet, fake cash donations and transactions in bank accounts have also been detected.

It alleged that under a conspiracy hatched over the years by PFI officials, money was also sent to India from abroad through a secret channel. The chargesheet also includes statements of the accused and witnesses recorded during the investigation.

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