AMN
A Delhi court has framed money laundering charges against Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah and alleged hawala dealer Mohammad Aslam Wani in a 2005 case of terror financing.
The Enforcement Directorate had on 23rd September filed the charge sheet against Shah accusing him of being in touch with Pakistan-based terrorist Hafiz Saeed. The charge sheet also named Wani, who is in judicial custody along with Shah. The court had taken cognisance of the charge sheet which relied upon 19 witnesses.
The central probe agency, in the charge sheet filed under sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, had furnished Shah’s statements where he has allegedly told the investigators that he has no source of income of his own and that he does not file any Income Tax Return.
The probe agency had recorded the statement of Wani where he allegedly said that he came to Delhi from Srinagar at the directions of Shah in April, 2003.
The ED alleged that Wani was asked by Shah to work for him in collecting hawala money from Delhi and deliver to him at Srinagar.