ED questions National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah in J-K Cricket Association scam: Officials

National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah is being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Srinagar workplace in reference to its probe into the multi-crore Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) rip-off, officers acquainted with the event mentioned on Monday, prompting his occasion to sentence the event.

Farooq Abdullah’s son Omar Abdullah mentioned the questioning was political vendetta and linked to the alliance solid by six events from Jammu and Kashmir over the restoration of the particular standing of Jammu and Kashmir. “The party will be responding to this ED summons shortly. This is nothing less then political vendetta coming days after the formation of the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration. To set the record straight no raids are being conducted at Dr Sahib’s residence,” Omar Abdullah posted.

He was referring to the alliance solid by six events from Jammu and Kashmir for restoration of the particular standing of the erstwhile state because it existed earlier than August 5 final yr. The declaration got here after a gathering at Farooq Abdullah’s home and was attended by PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, Peoples Conference chairman Sajad Lone, Peoples Movement chief Javaid Mir, CPI(M) chief Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami and Awami National Conference vice-president Muzaffar Shah.The assembly was referred to as by Farooq two days after Mehbooba was launched.

 

Ten office-bearers of the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA), together with Abdullah, are accused of turning the sports activities physique right into a lending company and working a number of bogus accounts between 2005 and 2012 when the rip-off was unearthed.

The rip-off got here to gentle in March 2012 when JKCA treasurer Manzoor Wazir filed a police criticism in opposition to former common secretary Mohammad Saleem Khan and former treasurer Ahsan Mirza. Soon, a listing with round 50 names linked to the monetary scandal was out. Abdullah misplaced the submit of JKCA president later after holding it for greater than three many years.

ED hooked up belongings price Rs 2.6 crore in a cash laundering case associated to the alleged embezzlement of funds of JKCA, the central company mentioned in a press release issued in February. A provisional order for attachment of belongings was issued underneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in opposition to the previous treasurer of JKCA Ahsan Ahmad Mirza and its finance committee member Mir Mansoor Gazanffer, it mentioned.

The ED case relies on a Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI’s) first data report as a part of which the latter probe company booked former office-bearers of JKCA, together with common secretary Mohd Saleem Khan and Mirza. The CBI filed a cost sheet in opposition to Farooq Abdullah, Khan, Mirza, Mir Manzoor Gazanffer Ali, Bashir Ahmad Misgar and Gulzar Ahmad Beigh (former accountant of JKCA) for “misappropriation of JKCA funds amounting to Rs 43.69 crore” from grants given by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to the affiliation for selling the game within the state between 2002-11.

The ED probe has discovered that throughout the monetary years 2005–2006 to 2011–2012 (as much as December 2011) JKCA obtained Rs 94.06 crore from BCCI in three completely different financial institution accounts. “However, several other bank accounts were opened in the name of JKCA into which these funds were transferred. Such other bank accounts along with the existing bank accounts were later used for laundering funds of JKCA,” ED had alleged.