The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday claimed that the Popular Front of India is involved in terror funding and other illegal activities and has raised funds from China in the guise of mask trading.
In its charge-sheet filed in a PMLA court, the agency said the organisation is involved in inciting violence during Delhi riots, making posters related to Babri Masjid and inciting people against National Registry of Citizenship (NRC) and Common Civil Code.
It said K.A. Rauf Sharif, a member of the PFI, has some Chinese connections and has raised Rs 1 crore from that country. Rauf visited China in 2019 and 2020 and received funds in his Indian Bank account. The agency claimed that Rauf funded the trip of Sidhique Kapan, a Delhi-based Kerala journalist, and three others to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh where a dalit woman died after allegedly being gang-raped.
Rauf was an employee of Oman-based Race International LLC which has four directors—two were Chinese and two were NRIs from Kerala, ANI reported.
The ED said Kaleem Pasha, a member of the SDPI, a sister concern of the PFI, received Rs 5 lakh from a Chinese company Jumpmonkey Promotions India (P) Ltd. According the the agency, Pasha is involved in Bengaluru riots.
The charge-sheet further claimed that the PFI has formed district executive committees in the UAE, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to raise funds and has given targets to individuals to collect cash and transfer it through hawala.
