Kathua, Nov 06: The Enforcement Directorate conducted simultaneous searches in Jammu and Kashmir, including at the premises of former minister Babu Singh, as part of a drugs-linked money laundering investigation.
Six premises in Srinagar and two in Jammu are being covered under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
The case pertains to a narcotics-linked money laundering case, first detected by the UT Police in March 2022, where a man named Mohd Shareef Shah was apprehended while attempting to deliver Rs 6.9 lakh hawala money from Kashmir to Jammu to one Jatinder Singh @ Babu Singh alias Jatinder Singh.
They said this money was intended to fund separatist and secessionist groups in Jammu to carry out subversive activities.
More reports awaited.
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