Separatist Shabir Shah 'Confesses' to Links With Hafiz Saeed, Pak Hawala Operators

An Enforcement Directorate chargesheet against Shabir Shah also said the separatist leader had confessed to receiving a 3% commission from Pakistani hawala operators.

New Delhi: Separatist leader Shabir Shah has reportedly confessed to links with hawala operators in Pakistan who were laundering money to fund militancy in Jammu and Kashmir.  

The chargesheet filed against the separatist leader by the Enforcement Directorate said he had also admitted that he was in “regular” touch with 26/11 attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed and had last spoken to the Lashkar-e-Taiba founder in January this year. 

The chargesheet, a copy of which was accessed by CNN-News18, also said that Shah had confessed to receiving a 3% commission from the hawala operators.

CNN-News18 had earlier reported on how money from Pakistan was being routed to India to fund terror activities in the Valley. The ‘Jihadi Badaam’ investigation had exposed how Pakistan's ISI and Lashkar-e-Taiba were using cross-border trade of California Almonds, which is duty-free, to transfer funds to terror organisations. 

In 2005, the Delhi Police's Special Cell had arrested alleged hawala dealer Mohammad Aslam Wani with cash and firearms, who later confessed to passing on a huge amount of cash to the separatist leader. 

Wani was arrested allegedly with Rs 63 lakh, received through 'hawala' channels from the Middle East, and a large cache of ammunition.

During questioning, he had told the police that Rs 50 lakh was to be delivered to Shah and Rs 10 lakh to Jaish-e-Mohammad area commander in Srinagar, Abu Baqar, and that the rest was his commission.

Wani, who hails from Srinagar, had also claimed that he delivered around Rs 2.25 crore to Shah and his kin in multiple instalments over the past year.

The Enforcement Directorate then registered a criminal case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act against Shah and Wani.

Shah had earlier said the ED case against him was "politically motivated". 

Source: http://www.news18.com/news/india/separatist-shabir-shah-confesses-to-links-with-hafiz-saeed-pak-hawala-operators-1525813.html

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