A country is in danger if both its internal & external enemies are united to coordinate & cooperate in challenging the nation’s sovereignty. India is also facing the same security crisis. Islamist organizations raising funds not only from India but also from countries that are hostile toward us to create a civil war-like situation in India. An institutionalised foreign funding organisational structure has been busted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
China infusing unrest in India
A day after attaching the property of radical Islamist organization PFI (Popular Front of India), ED in the charge sheet against PFI in the PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) court has stated that the money was laundered through China and gulf countries to create unrest in the country. Various violent protests like anti CAA & NRC were organised which ultimately resulted in the North-east Delhi riots being funded by China.
ED said that PFI member KA Rauf Sherif has Chinese connections. According to ED “Rauf received Rs one crore from China in the guise of mask trading. He was an employee of Race International LLC, Oman. Race International has four Directors, two were Chinese and two were NRI from Kerala. Rauf visited China in 2019 and 2020 and received funds in his Indian Bank Account.”
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China to Gulf, Gulf to India
India’s trade & labour relationship with almost all the gulf countries is high. But in the disguise of trade and remittances, strong terror financing institutions are developing.
On June 1, 2022, ED in its press release stated that it has “attached 23 bank accounts of PFI has a collective balance of Rs. 59,12,051 and 10 bank accounts of PFI’s front organisation Rehab India Foundation (RIF) having a collective balance of Rs. 9,50,030 in the ongoing money laundering investigation against Popular Front of India (PFI) & its related organisations”.
ED investigation revealed that a huge amount of monies including cash from questionable sources have been received by PFI and RIF. An amount of more than Rs. 60 Crore has been deposited in the accounts of PFI which includes cash deposits of more than Rs. 30 Crore since 2009. Similarly, around Rs. 58 Crore has been deposited in the accounts of RIF since 2010.
The investigation also revealed that PFI was covertly mobilizing funds through well-organised network in Gulf countries as part of criminal conspiracy and these proceeds of crime was secretly and clandestinely sent to India through underground & illegal channels and by way of foreign remittances into the bank accounts of sympathizers / office bearers/members and their relatives/associates in India and thereafter these funds were transferred to the bank accounts of PFI, RIF & other individuals/entities, ED stated in its press release.
Recently, Kerala High Court had said that “organisations like Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), as well as, the Popular Front of India (PFI) are extremist outfits but not banned”.
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These organisations are actively indoctrinating young minds and running a Jihad business through foreign funding. In the interconnected world, it is easy to create violence and spread unrest through social media. If these organisations are not controlled and banned then there are high chances that they will arm themselves with sophisticated weapons and this soft war will turn into a hard war. The government need to immediately declare these organisations unlawful and initiated further proceedings under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), 1967.
