Delhi riots: ED files charge sheet against former AAP Councillor Tahir Hussain in money laundering case

Delhi riots: ED files charge sheet against former AAP Councillor Tahir Hussain in money laundering case

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday filed a cost sheet in a Delhi court docket towards former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain in a cash laundering case associated to the communal violence in northeast Delhi in February.

The ED was probing the allegation that Hussain and his linked individuals laundered about Rs 1.10 crore by utilizing purported shell or dummy corporations to gas protests towards the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the riots.

Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat took cognisance of the offences underneath part 3 (cash laundering) learn with part 70 (offences by corporations) punishable underneath part four of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002 towards Hussain and co-accused Amit Gupta.

The choose directed that Hussain and Gupta be produced in court docket on October 19.

“There is prima facie sufficient incriminating material about the involvement of the accused persons. Thus, cognizance of the offence under section 3 read with Section 70, punishable under Section 4 of PMLA, 2002 is taken against accused Tahir Hussain and accused Amit Gupta,” the court docket stated.

The ED stated in its cost sheet that investigation within the case was in progress and a supplementary criticism could also be filed later.

“The Enforcement Directorate may proceed with further investigation, as per law,” the court docket stated.

Hussain is in judicial custody within the case.

The ED’s Special Public Prosecutor N Ok Matta had earlier instructed the court docket that Hussain was allegedly concerned in cash laundering and varied different acts of dishonest, falsification and forgery of paperwork, and felony conspiracy.

Matta had stated the ED had seized a number of incriminating paperwork and digital units after conducting searches at varied premises.

The ED additionally alleged that Hussain had entered right into a felony conspiracy by fraudulently transferring cash from the accounts of many corporations.

This cash, which was allegedly proceeds of crime, was used for committing varied different scheduled offences, the company had claimed.

Senior advocate Ok Ok Manan and advocate Rizwan, showing for Hussain, had claimed that he was a sufferer of circumstances and was falsely implicated within the case.

Hussain was arrested in a number of circumstances associated to the riots. He has additionally been booked underneath the stringent anti-terror regulation – Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act – in a conspiracy case associated to the riots.

He was additionally arrested in reference to the homicide of IB official Ankit Sharma through the riots.

Communal violence had damaged out in northeast Delhi on February 24 after clashes between citizenship regulation supporters and protesters spiralled uncontrolled, leaving not less than 53 individuals useless and round 200 injured. 

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