ED freezes ₹7.5 lakh, conducts searches in Bengaluru in ISIS recruitment and terror-funding probe
During the raids, officials claimed to have seized incriminating electronic records, digital devices and froze ₹7.50 lakh.The ED case is based on an FIR filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) regarding alleged ISIS recruitment activities at the two bodies. The NIA had arrested Irfan Nasir, Ahamed Abdul Cader, Mohammed Tauqir Mahmood, and Zuhab Hameed Shakeel Manna, while Mohammed Shihab is said to be absconding. The NIA subsequently filed a chargesheet against all five accused, alleging they were affiliated with the banned terrorist organisation ISIS/ISIL/Daesh.According to the NIA chargesheet, the accused allegedly conspired to radicalise and recruit impressionable Muslim youth from Bengaluru into ISIS.
- ▪During the raids, officials claimed to have seized incriminating electronic records, digital devices and froze ₹7.50 lakh.The ED case is based on an FIR filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) regarding alleged ISIS recruitment act
- ▪The NIA had arrested Irfan Nasir, Ahamed Abdul Cader, Mohammed Tauqir Mahmood, and Zuhab Hameed Shakeel Manna, while Mohammed Shihab is said to be absconding.
- ▪The NIA subsequently filed a chargesheet against all five accused, alleging they were affiliated with the banned terrorist organisation ISIS/ISIL/Daesh.According to the NIA chargesheet, the accused allegedly conspired to radicalise and recr
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The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has conducted searches at eight locations in Bengaluru in connection with a money laundering investigation linked to an alleged ISIS recruitment and terror-funding module, freezing what it claimed to be proceeds of crime worth ₹7.5 lakh.The ED carried out the searches on Tuesday under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, on the premises of the Iqra Welfare Trust, the Guidance for Mankind (GFM) Trust, and people linked to these organisations based in Bengaluru.
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