ED finds ‘financial links’ between PFI and anti-CAA protests in UP: Sources
Team Udayavani, Jan 27, 2020, 4:21 PM IST
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has found that the recent violent protests in Uttar Pradesh against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) had a “financial link” with the Kerala-based outfit PFI, official sources said on Monday.
The agency, which is probing the Popular Front of India (PFI) under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) since 2018, has found that at least Rs 120 crore were deposited in bank accounts in western Uttar Pradesh after the Act was passed by Parliament late last year.
They said the ED has shared these findings with the Union home ministry.
The UP police had also recently sought a ban on the Popular Front of India (PFI), days after its complicity was suspected in the statewide violent protests against the amended citizenship law.
Nearly 20 people had died during these protests.
The ED, sources said, found the funds deposited in bank were also routed from some foreign shores and were sent in the accounts of certain investment firms.
A National Investigation Agency’s FIR and chargesheet against the PFI had formed the basis for the ED to file a PMLA case against it.
The PFI was formed in 2006 in Kerala as a successor to the National Democratic Front (NDF).
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