Shashwati Chowdhruy
Published on: 27 July 2022 at 20:04 IST
The former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Farooq Abdullah, and a few others have been charged by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering probe into alleged irregularities at the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA), said the ED in New Delhi
According to a statement, the prosecution’s complaint was filed to a Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) Court in Srinagar on June 4.
Ahsan Ahmad Mirza and Mir Manzoor Gazanffer, the two deceased former treasurers of the JKCA, as well as a few other people, have also been arraigned by the ED in the chargesheet.
The accused has been summoned to appear in court on August 27. According to the Court, Mirza was arrested by the ED in September of 2019 and a chargesheet was filed.
In this case, the agency has questioned Abdullah several times. Under three separate orders it had issued, the federal probe agency attached assets worth Rs 21.55 crore that belonged to Abdullah and others.
According to the ED statement, “the case relates to the syphoning off of funds from the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association by way of transfers to numerous personal bank accounts of unrelated parties, including those of JKCA office bearers, as well as through unexplained cash withdrawals from JKCA bank accounts.”
The CBI chargesheet, also names former accountants Bashir Ahmed Misgar and Gulzar Ahmad Baigh under the alleged misappropriation of JKCA funds amounting to Rs. 43.69 crore that were improperly taken from funded grants provided by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
