The Enforcement Directorate said a criminal case against the suspended AAP Councillor has been filed under Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
The Enforcement Directorate has booked suspended Aam Aadmi Party councilor Tahir Hussain, Islamist group Popular Front of India and some others on charges of money laundering and alleged funding of the recent violence in northeast Delhi. Hussain is facing charges of killing an Intelligence Bureau official during the violence.
The agency has registered the case against Hussain under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Similar charges have also been pressed against the Popular Front of India.
Hussain is in the custody of Delhi Police at present.
The officials said the federal agency has taken cognisance of a clutch of FIRs filed by Delhi Police’s Crime Branch to probe the alleged money laundering and routing of illegal funds by Hussain, PFI and others to purportedly sponsor the communal riots that killed over 50 people.
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