Enforcement Directorate issues summons to Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shahh
Shabir Shah had also allegedly given Wani the phone number of one Saifi based in Muzaffarabadin Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) who gave him instructions to collect the money.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued summons to Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah, for questioning in connection with a decade-old case of terror financing through 'hawala channel'.
The summons were sent a day after he was put in detention at a South Delhi guest house by Delhi Police on Saturday after he landed in The Capital to meet Pakistani leadership in prelude to the now cancelled NSA-level talks, sources said.
Shah has been summoned at the Delhi zonal office of the agency here this week, sources said. This is the third attempt by the agency to serve summons on Shah in an August 2005 case where Delhi Police's Special Cell arrested Mohammed Aslam Wani, an alleged hawala dealer, who had claimed that he had passed on `2.25 crore to Shah.
While the agency had said its earlier summons were not replied by Shah, the Kashmiri leader had in the past claimed that the case was politically motivated. Wani, who is at present out on a bail, has also been summoned by the ED, which registered a case under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against him and Shah.
Wani (35), who hailed from Srinagar, also claimed that he had delivered about `2.25 crore to Shah and his kin in several installments over the past year. According to sources, Shah had allegedly asked Wani to channel 'hawala' money to him from Delhi for which he was paid three per cent as commission.
He had also allegedly given Wani the phone number of one Saifi based in Muzaffarabadin Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) who gave him instructions to collect the money.
Wani had come in contact with Abu Baqar in 2005 who had directed him to collect a consignment of explosives, arms and ammunition from Delhi, the sources said.