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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has intensified its probe into entities linked to the banned Popular Front of India (PFI), targeting 8 Kerala-based trusts suspected of handling suspicious funds.
As portion of its latest ineligible action, the ED has attached movable and immovable properties worthy ₹67 crore. While these properties were officially registered nether the identified trusts and the group’s governmental wing, enforcement squads accidental they were efficaciously owned and managed by the PFI.
According to an authoritative connection precocious issued by the ED, the documents seized during the attachment process see records of properties, registered assets, locations of associated individuals, and details of facilities utilized for grooming purposes. The trusts nether scrutiny are located successful Wayanad, Malappuram, Palakkad, Ernakulam, Pathanamthitta and Thiruvananthapuram districts.
The probe stems from a lawsuit filed by the National Investigation Agency and nether the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The enforcement helping suspects that funds raised done banking channels, hawala networks, and donations — some from India and overseas — were being utilized to enactment amerciable activities.
Diaries recovered during searches reportedly incorporate records of transactions not reported successful authoritative slope accounts.
So far, the probe has identified ₹131 crore arsenic proceeds of transgression linked to the PFI’s fiscal network. Additionally, 28 radical person been arrested for alleged connections to the banned organisations and its backing activities.
