ED files chargesheet against 2 PFI members who collected Rs 22 crore for unlawful activities
India Today
ED filed a chargesheet against 2 PFI leaders accused of collecting and laundering funds to the tune of Rs 22 crore for the party.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a chargesheet against two Popular Front of India (PFI) leaders under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) before the Special PMLA Court in Lucknow.
In the supplementary chargesheet, ED has named PFI leaders Abdul Razaq Peediyakkal alias Abdul Razak BP and Asharaf Khadir alias Ashraf M.K as accused in the case.
Abdul Razaq BP and Ashraf M.K. were arrested by ED earlier. Both are accused of collecting and laundering funds to the tune of Rs 22 crore for the PFI.
The ED’s chargesheet also also alleged that both the PFI members hatched a criminal conspiracy to raise funds in India and abroad, a large part of which was used by PFI to carry out their continuous radical and unlawful activities.
The first chargesheet in the case was filed by the ED in February, 2021 against five office bearers and PFI members, including its student wing, Campus Front of India.
Both of them allegedly, in association with other PFI leaders and members associated with overseas entities, were developing a residential project - Munnar Villa Vista Project (MVVP) in Kerala, with a motive to launder money collected from foreign countries as well as within the country and to generate funds for PFI to finance its radical activities.
“Investigation established that ‘proceeds of crime’ in the form of unaccounted and unexplained cash as well as foreign funds were parked in MVVP and were projected as untainted,” said the ED.
