ED probe reveals PFI’s global network of over 13,000 active members, hawala finance

According to the ED dossier, PFI had more than 13,000 active members in Singapore and Gulf countries, including Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

“PFI has formed well-defined District Executive Committees (DECs) for the non-resident Muslim diaspora living in the Gulf, who were tasked with collecting funds,” the ED said.

The agency said it has seized assets worth a total of Rs 61.72 crore as part of its investigation, arrested 26 PFI members and filed nine charges.

The probe into the finances of the banned organization by the Center in September 2022 has revealed that the PFI allegedly conspired and raised funds from within the country and abroad through banking channels, ‘hawala’, donations etc. for “committing and financing” terrorist acts. all over India.

The ED has alleged that the actual objectives of the PFI, formed in 2006 in Kerala but headquartered in Delhi, are “different” from those set out in its constitution.

“PFI’s real objectives include forming an organization to carry out an Islamic movement in India through jihad, though PFI is posing as a social movement. They are violent in nature,” he goes to · legate the agency.

It describes some of the methods of protest used by the group to prepare for a “civil war” creating unrest and conflict in society, through “non-violent airstrikes, guerrilla theater (street play on social and political issues ), etc. alternative communication systems (non-conventional media), etc.”.

The agency said the PFI undertook civil disobedience of laws, proposed dual sovereignty (having more than one sovereign), created parallel governments and revealed identities of secret agents to “undermine” unity and sovereignty of the country.

It has also been alleged from the ED that the PFI conducted weapons training under the guise of physical education classes, where he taught “offensive and defensive” maneuvers using different variations of punches, kicks standing, knife and stick attacks.

The PFI has also been accused of being “actively involved” in “inciting” violence and “fomenting trouble” during the February 2020 Delhi riots. It has also been alleged that members of the PFI and CFI (Campus Front of India, the student wing of the PFI) visited Hathras in Uttar Pradesh a few years ago with the intention of disturbing communal harmony, inciting communal riots and spreading terror.

The ED has alleged that the PFI had planned to form a “terrorist gang” by collecting deadly weapons and explosive devices to launch attacks on important and sensitive places and individuals with the intention of undermining the unity, integrity and sovereignty of India and disturb communal harmony.

The team has been accused of organizing a training camp with the intention of causing disturbances during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Patna on July 12, 2022 and printing “incriminating” literature that could pose a threat to to unity, integrity and sovereignty. of the country

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