SRINAGAR – The Enforcement Directorate has attached assets worth Rs11.86-crore of former puppet chief ministers and National Conferencepresident Farooq Abdullah in connection with its money laundering probe inIndian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the investigating agency is probingmoney laundering case linked to financial irregularities in the Jammu andKashmir Cricket Association and has pressed similar charges against a fewothers as well.
The agency has issued a provisional attachment order under the Preventionof Money Laundering Act and the attached properties are located in Jammuand Srinagar.
In October this year, the ED had last questioned the NC leader inconnection with the case, kicking up a political storm as parties called ita vendetta against the formation of an alliance to fight for therestoration of Article 370.
Meanwhile, the National Conference termed the attachment of Dr FarooqAbdullah’s properties as “political vendetta meant to settle a politicalscore.”
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In a joint statement, party Ali Muhammad Sagar, Nasir Aslam Wani, DevenderSingh Rana, Mohammad Shafi, AR Rather, Choudhary Muhammad Ramzan, MianAltaf, Mubarak Gul, Mohammad Akbar Lone, Hasnain Masoodi, SS Salathia, AjaySadhotra, and Qamar Ali Akhoon lambasted the series of attacks on the partyleadership.
They said such acts were unwarranted and unjustified.
