The Enforcement Directorate on Monday filed a charge sheet against meat exporter Moin Akhtar Qureshi in connection with a money laundering case. The accused is currently in judicial custody.
The Special Judge took cognisance of the charge sheet filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act and issued a production warrant against Qureshi for his appearance on October 25. He was arrested by the Directorate on August 25. The agency is probing the role of several other persons in the case, submitted the ED’s counsel.
According to the ED, some witnesses have given statements that they had routed crores of rupees for the accused and his associates, through his employees. One of them alleged that the accused extorted ₹1.75 crore from him and his friend in lieu of the help extended to him in a case pursued by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The agency has accused Qureshi of being involved in hawala operations. He allegedly routed “bribe money” abroad through some Delhi-based hawala operators. The funds in question were transferred to London, Paris, Dubai, Hong Kong, Italy, Switzerland and the United States.
The ED’s case is based on an FIR registered by the CBI against Qureshi, his childhood friend and former CBI chief A.P. Singh, and others, alleging that he took huge amounts of money from different people for obtaining undue favours from public servants or politicians holding high public office.
