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NIA Raids PFI Offices: Shafiq Payath, a member of PFI and SDPI, who was caught by the ED from Kozhikode, Kerala, was funding anti-national activities from Qatar. His title had cropped up after the arrest of PFI General Secretary KA Rauf Sharif, when Rauf revealed that out of Rs 1.36 crore he obtained from overseas, Rs 21 lakh was despatched by Shafiq Payeth.
In reality, Shafiq was arranging funding for PFI by staying in Qatar. He can also be an knowledgeable in sending cash by means of hawala, due to which the investigating companies were continually on the lookout for him. After being caught by the ED, the courtroom has despatched him on remand for ten days, which is able to finish on October 3. Officers are interrogating him in flip at the ED’s zonal workplace positioned at Ashok Marg, Lucknow.
This is how the transaction happened
Mohammad Shafiq alias Shafiq Payath, who lives in Qatar, is the principal hyperlink who was constantly sending cash to Rauf Sharif. These transactions were occurring in the title of shopping for and promoting items from overseas. A a part of this quantity was given by Rauf Sharif to 4 members of PFI, Siddiq Kappan, Atiqur Rehman, Masood Ahmed and Mohammad Alam, who were conspiring to disturb communal concord after the Hathras incident.
Send Rs 16 lakh to Rehab India Foundation
Investigation has revealed that Shafiq Payath had despatched Rs 16 lakh from his South Indian Bank account to Rehab India Foundation, an affiliate of PFI. Rauf had additionally admitted in his assertion that Rehab India Foundation gives funding from PFI members dwelling in Gulf international locations. Apart from this, Shafiq was remitting cash from his Qatar NRE/NRO account to Rauf Sharif and Rehab India Foundation.
After coming to the discover of the investigating companies, Shafiq Payath’s assertion was recorded 4 instances in which he admitted that he had obtained a money fee of about Rs 90 lakh for promoting the masks which he deposited in his Doha checking account. Later this quantity was transferred to the account of South Indian Bank. Out of this, he transferred Rs 40 lakh to the accounts of Rauf Sharif in ICICI Bank and Federal Bank. He additionally despatched some quantity straight to Rauf from his Doha checking account.
PFI workplaces were raided
He has additionally confessed to having labored as a enterprise growth supervisor at Gulf Tejas Daily for 2 years. This newspaper is taken into account to be the mouthpiece of PFI. Its director Abdul Razzaq BP, who’s an energetic member of PFI in Kerala, has additionally been arrested in the previous. Apart from all the suspicious paperwork, the ED has additionally acquired two mobiles from the home of Shafiq Payath, which is about to be despatched for forensic examination on Monday. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) together with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the police of 15 states arrested a number of leaders and activists of the Popular Front of India (PFI) on Thursday throughout a nationwide crackdown.
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