First Direct Charge Sheet Filed against Zakir Naik – Enforcement Directorate.

By Abhay Harish Shah , Realty Quarter

Enforcement Directorate also known as ED has filed an immediate charge sheet against Islamic preacher Zakir Naik. Zakir Abdul Karim Naik is an Indian Islamic preacher and the organizer and leader of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF). He is also the founder of the Peace TV channel through which he reaches 200 million viewers. The charge sheet is filed on the charges of money laundering and creating illegal real estate assets which are worth of crores.

For the first time, the Enforcement Directorate has filed a direct charge sheet against the controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik. The official said, that Zakir Naik, is been charged against money laundering to tune Rs. 193 crore and allegedly creating illegal real estate assets worth crores in India and foreign countries. The organization recorded the prosecution complaint under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) before the watchful eye of a special court in Mumbai and said Naik’s “provocative talks and lectures have motivated and prompted various Muslim youths in India to submit unlawful exercises and terrorist acts.”

As stated above an amount of Rs 193.06 crores has been identified as proceeds of crime. Earlier, the agency has marked Naik’s properties, investments made in mutual funds, his Islamic International School in Chennai, 10 flats, 3 godowns, 2 buildings and few lands in Pune and Mumbai also his 10 bank accounts. And, Naik has also made investments in Dubai, where he is developing high-end bungalows.

The organization asserted in the charge sheet that the cash trail test against Naik and his partners, found that the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), which is possessed and promoted by Naik, got a measure of Rs 64.86 crores, between 2003-04 to 2016-17, for the most part from questionable or suspicious sources and a greater part of the assets were used for utilized for organizing peace conferences’. It included that Naik exchanged assets from abroad to India and obtained properties in Pune and Mumbai, by the layering of assets and for the sake of his nearby relatives. “Examination has additionally uncovered that Naik was likewise engaged with suspicious unaccounted money exchanges.”

The central probe agency, till now, has captured two of Naik’s assistants Amir Gazdar and Najamuddin Sathak. Naik is departing suddenly and at present, is expressed to be in Malaysia. Naik was reserved by the ED in 2016, in view of a National Investigation Agency (NIA) FIR that was enlisted under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). The NIA said the Islamic preacher ‘intentionally and malevolently offended the religious convictions of Hindus, Christians and non-Wahabi Muslims, especially Shias, Sufis and the Barelwis, with the goal of insulting their religious sentiments’. It had said Naik’s association, IRF and Ms Harmony Media, had been instrumental in the greatest dissemination of such implicating talks.