<p class="title">The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Tuesday said it has attached over a dozen assets in Jammu and Kashmir in a terror financing case against Pakistan-based terrorist and chief of the globally banned Hizbul Mujahideen, Syed Salahuddin.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The central probe agency issued a provisional order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to attach 13 properties, worth Rs 1.22 crore, in the state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ED said the properties belonged to Mohammad Shafi Shah, a resident of Bandipora, and six other residents of Jammu and Kashmir, who allegedly worked for the terror outfit.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The agency said it filed a criminal case of money laundering in this instance after taking cognisance of a National Investigating Agency (NIA) charge sheet filed against Salahuddin, Shah and others under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Action (UAPA) and other sections of the Indian Penal Code.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, the most active terror outfit in Kashmir, has been responsible for funding terrorist and secessionist activities in Jammu and Kashmir.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Headed by Syed Salahuddin, its self-styled commander based out of Rawalpindi in Pakistan, it funds terrorism on Indian soil through monies organised by a trust called JKART (Jammu and Kashmir Affectees Relief Trust) in alleged connivance with the ISI and other Pakistan-based entities," the ED said in a statement.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It said the probe found that "terror funds" were being sent to India through the hawala -- illegal way of routing money by skirting banking channels, barter trade and human carriers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The funds are illegally distributed to the next of kin of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, active and dead," it said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The US government had in August 2017 designated Hizbul Mujahideen as 'foreign terrorist organisation'.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Besides heading Hizbul Mujahideen, Salahuddin is the chairman of the United Jihad Council (UJC), a conglomerate of terrorist outfits operating in the Kashmir Valley.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The NIA had arrested Salahuddin's son Syed Shahid Yousuf in this case in 2017 and the J-K government had later suspended him from service as he was working in the state agriculture department.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Shah and three others are lodged in the Tihar jail in the national capital in connection with this terror funding case, the ED said. </p>
<p class="title">The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Tuesday said it has attached over a dozen assets in Jammu and Kashmir in a terror financing case against Pakistan-based terrorist and chief of the globally banned Hizbul Mujahideen, Syed Salahuddin.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The central probe agency issued a provisional order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to attach 13 properties, worth Rs 1.22 crore, in the state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ED said the properties belonged to Mohammad Shafi Shah, a resident of Bandipora, and six other residents of Jammu and Kashmir, who allegedly worked for the terror outfit.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The agency said it filed a criminal case of money laundering in this instance after taking cognisance of a National Investigating Agency (NIA) charge sheet filed against Salahuddin, Shah and others under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Action (UAPA) and other sections of the Indian Penal Code.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, the most active terror outfit in Kashmir, has been responsible for funding terrorist and secessionist activities in Jammu and Kashmir.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Headed by Syed Salahuddin, its self-styled commander based out of Rawalpindi in Pakistan, it funds terrorism on Indian soil through monies organised by a trust called JKART (Jammu and Kashmir Affectees Relief Trust) in alleged connivance with the ISI and other Pakistan-based entities," the ED said in a statement.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It said the probe found that "terror funds" were being sent to India through the hawala -- illegal way of routing money by skirting banking channels, barter trade and human carriers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The funds are illegally distributed to the next of kin of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, active and dead," it said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The US government had in August 2017 designated Hizbul Mujahideen as 'foreign terrorist organisation'.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Besides heading Hizbul Mujahideen, Salahuddin is the chairman of the United Jihad Council (UJC), a conglomerate of terrorist outfits operating in the Kashmir Valley.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The NIA had arrested Salahuddin's son Syed Shahid Yousuf in this case in 2017 and the J-K government had later suspended him from service as he was working in the state agriculture department.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Shah and three others are lodged in the Tihar jail in the national capital in connection with this terror funding case, the ED said. </p>