New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached 35 immovable properties worth ₹56.56 crore in connection with its ongoing money laundering probe against the banned Popular Front of India (PFI).
The ED's investigation revealed that the PFI had over 13,000 active members in West Asia, Singapore, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The agency has so far arrested 26 accused persons linked to the outfit and submitted nine prosecution complaints in the case from February 2021 to May 2024.
The ED said that the PFI's real objectives include forming an organization for carrying out an Islamic movement in India through Jihad, despite masquerading itself as a social movement. The outfit raised funds to the tune of ₹94 crore from different parts of the country and deposited the money in 29 bank accounts in various states.
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