ED books Tahir Hussain and several others for money laundering; Alleged funding of recent violence in Delhi

New Delhi, March 11: No traitor has to be left left bailed! 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.

 

 

Registering the case against Hussain under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, the ED has pressed similar charged against the Popular Front of India. ED has taken cognisance 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 riots that killed over 50 people in Delhi.

Tahir was arrested last week after he surrendered himself before the court. However, the preliminary investigation by the agency has revealed that a building belonging to Hussain in Khajuri area of northeast Delhi was used for stone-pelting and hurling petrol bombs during violence in northeast part of the national capital.

 

Recently, a team of Delhi Police collected evidence from the building owned by Hussain. The team also recovered evidence in connection with the IB staffer's death. He, however, has blatantly denied all the allegations and claimed that he had reached out to the police twice that day to save his life during the violence.