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ED files chargesheet against Al-Falah group chief, attaches properties in money-laundering case
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday said it has filed a chargesheet against Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui, the chairperson of the Al-Falah group, and the Al-Falah Charitable Trust in a money-laundering case, The New Indian Express reported.
The Al-Falah group has been under scrutiny in an investigation linked to the November 10 blast near Delhi's Red Fort.
The central agency also attached assets worth about Rs 140 crore belonging to Al-Falah University, which is owned by the Al-Falah group.
The case pertains to the alleged generation and laundering of funds linked to the trust, Al-Falah University and other associated institutions and entities owned by the Al-Falah group.
Siddiqui was arrested on November 18 and is in judicial custody.
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday said it had quantified the alleged proceeds of the alleged crime in the case to be Rs 493.2 crore, The Hindu reported.
The blast near the Red Fort metro station left 13 persons dead. Umar Un Nabi, a doctor, was believed to have been driving the car that exploded. Two days after the explosion, the Union government described it as a “terrorist incident”.
Since then, the National Investigation Agency has arrested at least nine persons linked to the blast.
Hours before the blast, the police also said that it had cracked an “inter-state and transnational terror module” in Faridabad and Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur. The police said at the time that it had recovered 2,900 kg of improvised explosive device-making material in raids in several states.
During its investigation, the police had alleged that the key suspects in the case, including Nabi, who was a faculty member, used a room on the Al-Falah Medical College campus in Haryana's Faridabad to plan logistics for transporting ammonium nitrate for multiple blasts in the National Capital Region.
The college is part of Al-Falah University.
The vehicle used in the blast had also been parked inside the campus for nearly 20 days, the police had said at the time.
Siddiqui, who has also been the chancellor of Al-Falah University since 2014, had been taken into custody under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act after investigators examined material seized during searches conducted on November 18.
The case filed by the Enforcement Directorate was based on two first information reports filed by the Delhi Police, which alleged that Al-Falah University had falsely claimed accreditation by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council and misrepresented its eligibility under the University Grants Commission Act.
The National Assessment and Accreditation Council is an autonomous body under the University Grants Commission that assesses and accredits higher educational institutions such as colleges and universities to determine their “quality status”.
The University Grants Commission had also said that the Al-Falah University is recognised only as a state private university and has never been eligible for central grants.
The Enforcement Directorate has alleged that Siddiqui played an active role in the “fraudulent misrepresentations to regulators/stakeholders and consequential admissions and fee collections”, The Hindu reported on Friday.
Siddiqui “exercised dominant control over Al-Falah Charitable Trust, Al-Falah University (including Al-Falah School of Medical Sciences and Research Centre) and related entities, and is found a key beneficiary of the unlawful proceeds”, it claimed.
The central agency alleged that as the managing trustee and chancellor, he exercised “complete administrative, financial and operational control, with other office-bearers functioning as nominal or proxy persons”.
More than Rs 110 crore was routed to family-controlled firms, it added.
The ED listed several alleged violations, including misrepresentation of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council status and false claims under the University Grants Commission, The Hindu reported.
“The establishment/functioning of the medical college involved violations of NMC [National Medical Commission] norms and procurement of approvals/certifications through misrepresentation and suppression of material facts,” the news agency quoted the central agency as having said.
The commission is a regulatory body for medical education and practice.
Source: Scroll
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