A special court in Delhi has directed the framing of charges against Mohammad Yasin Malik, the jailed chief of banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), and six others under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) for allegedly receiving foreign funding from the Pakistani establishment through Hawala channels.
The court said that prima facie, there is sufficient material on record based upon which strong suspicion is raised against all accused persons.
It also claimed that these proceeds of crime were thereafter received, routed, transferred, concealed, possessed, acquired and/or used by the accused persons in various forms and through different channels. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed its case in 2017 based on a first information report (FIR) filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The financial crime-fighting agency said its investigation revealed that the scheduled offences resulted in generation of proceeds of crime to the tune of Rs 8,94,87,639.
