ED files charge sheet against LeT operative for money laundering, terror funding

NEW DELHI: The ED has filed a charge sheet against a jailed operative of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a Pakistan-based proscribed terror group, on charges of money laundering and acting as a terror financing conduit.

In a statement, the agency said a prosecution complaint (charge sheet) was filed against Mohammed Umer Madani, aged about 60 years, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) before a special court here on March 30.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) took up the case on the basis of an FIR and charge sheet filed against Madani by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police that had arrested them in 2009 with fake Indian currency notes with a face value of Rs 50,000, USD 8,000, Nepalese rupee 4,067 and some documents. (AGENCIES)