Shabir Shah Admits to Receiving Pak Funding to Promote Terror: ED

Shah stated that he has no income of his own and that he does not file income tax returns.

Separatist leader Shabir Shah.

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday filed a charge sheet against Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah and a suspected hawala dealer in connection with a 2005 money laundering case filed against him for alleged terror financing.

Shabir Shah admitted that he talks to Hafiz Saeed over the phone on the issue of Kashmir. He recently spoke to Saeed in January 2017.

The ED in its chargesheet also found that Shabir Shah's wife Dr Bilquis was also involved in collecting money through Hawala in the terror funding case.

The ED added that Shah received funding from Pakistani terror outfits to promote their activities in Jammu and Kashmir as well as other parts of India, as Deccan Chronicle reported.

Shah also confessed to having no income source of his own and not filing an ITR, as the ED wrote in the report. 

Shah received donations from locals and “well-wishers” which amounted to Rs 8-10 lakhs a year.

The final report, filed before Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma, also named the alleged hawala dealer Mohammed Alsam Wani, who is in judicial custody along with Shah.

The case dates back to August 2005 in which the Delhi Police's Special Cell had earlier arrested Wani.

Wani had then claimed that he had given Rs 2.25 crore to Shah, following which the ED had registered a criminal case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against the duo.

Shah was arrested by the ED on July 25. The agency arrested Wani on 6 August.

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