<p>Mangaluru: The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Bengaluru Zonal Office has provisionally attached one movable property in the form of bank balance to the extent of Rs 29,176 in the account of Syed Yasin, one of the prime accused in the Mangaluru autorickshaw blast case, under the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) 2002.</p><p>A release from ED said the blast incident in a moving auto had occurred on November 19, 2022 at Kankanady police station limits. </p>.A year on since Mangaluru auto blast, victim yet to get compensation from govt .<p>ED initiated investigation on the basis of the FIR registered following the complaint by K Purushottama, an autorickshaw driver. </p><p>Later, the case was reregistered by the NIA. As Sections 3, 4 and 5 of Explosives Substances Act, 1908 are Scheduled Offences under Section 2(1)(y) of the PMLA, 2002, an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) dated November 25, 2022 was recorded for commencing investigation under PMLA, 2002. </p><p>The chargesheet filed in the case revealed that the auto rickshaw blast in Mangaluru was a part of the plan of the ISIS, a terrorist organisation with an aim to spread terror and wage war against the Government of India and to threaten the integrity and sovereignty of India.</p><p>The release further said investigations conducted revealed that the ISIS online handler named 'Colonel' had given training over Wicker app/Telegram etc to the main accused Mohammad Shariq alias Premraj and other accused persons, to make improvised explosive device (IED)/bomb and also arranged funds through certain mule accounts and also through crypto currencies which were at times encashed by Syed Yasin and Mohammad Shariq, through PoS agents, for a commission and at some instances the encashed cryptocurrencies were routed through the fraudulently opened mule accounts in FINO Payments Bank.</p><p>An amount totalling to Rs 2,86,008 was deposited by different crypto currency dealers in the mule accounts and Rs 41,680 was collected in cash from PoS agents. </p><p>The said amounts were utilised for purchase of the items online to assemble the IED and for hiring hideouts in Mysuru city and other places and also for conducting recce at various places in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka and specifically the above said bomb was supposed to be planted at Dharmasthala Manjunatha Swamy Temple. </p><p>It had exploded in the autorickshaw as the bomb timer was set as nine seconds instead of 90 minutes. </p><p>One of the accused Maaz Munir was the person who provided the details of the FINO payments bank mule accounts to Mohammad Shariq to receive the various payments sent by the online handler 'Colonel.' </p><p>The amounts were spent for the purposes and the amount of Rs 39,228 was seized from the bag of Mohammed Shariq, at the Father Muller Hospital by the police has been taken over by the NIA. Rs 29,176 available in the bank account of Syed Yasin has been attached. All the arrested are in judicial custody and investigation is in progress. </p>
<p>Mangaluru: The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Bengaluru Zonal Office has provisionally attached one movable property in the form of bank balance to the extent of Rs 29,176 in the account of Syed Yasin, one of the prime accused in the Mangaluru autorickshaw blast case, under the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) 2002.</p><p>A release from ED said the blast incident in a moving auto had occurred on November 19, 2022 at Kankanady police station limits. </p>.A year on since Mangaluru auto blast, victim yet to get compensation from govt .<p>ED initiated investigation on the basis of the FIR registered following the complaint by K Purushottama, an autorickshaw driver. </p><p>Later, the case was reregistered by the NIA. As Sections 3, 4 and 5 of Explosives Substances Act, 1908 are Scheduled Offences under Section 2(1)(y) of the PMLA, 2002, an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) dated November 25, 2022 was recorded for commencing investigation under PMLA, 2002. </p><p>The chargesheet filed in the case revealed that the auto rickshaw blast in Mangaluru was a part of the plan of the ISIS, a terrorist organisation with an aim to spread terror and wage war against the Government of India and to threaten the integrity and sovereignty of India.</p><p>The release further said investigations conducted revealed that the ISIS online handler named 'Colonel' had given training over Wicker app/Telegram etc to the main accused Mohammad Shariq alias Premraj and other accused persons, to make improvised explosive device (IED)/bomb and also arranged funds through certain mule accounts and also through crypto currencies which were at times encashed by Syed Yasin and Mohammad Shariq, through PoS agents, for a commission and at some instances the encashed cryptocurrencies were routed through the fraudulently opened mule accounts in FINO Payments Bank.</p><p>An amount totalling to Rs 2,86,008 was deposited by different crypto currency dealers in the mule accounts and Rs 41,680 was collected in cash from PoS agents. </p><p>The said amounts were utilised for purchase of the items online to assemble the IED and for hiring hideouts in Mysuru city and other places and also for conducting recce at various places in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka and specifically the above said bomb was supposed to be planted at Dharmasthala Manjunatha Swamy Temple. </p><p>It had exploded in the autorickshaw as the bomb timer was set as nine seconds instead of 90 minutes. </p><p>One of the accused Maaz Munir was the person who provided the details of the FINO payments bank mule accounts to Mohammad Shariq to receive the various payments sent by the online handler 'Colonel.' </p><p>The amounts were spent for the purposes and the amount of Rs 39,228 was seized from the bag of Mohammed Shariq, at the Father Muller Hospital by the police has been taken over by the NIA. Rs 29,176 available in the bank account of Syed Yasin has been attached. All the arrested are in judicial custody and investigation is in progress. </p>