New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has identified some 24 properties across India, including in the national capital, that belong to Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Ahmed Watali and were bought with money received from alleged 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Watali in August 2017. He is currently lodged in Tihar Jail.
On Monday, the Enforcement Directorate attached Watali’s immovable property worth Rs 1.3 crore in Haryana’s Gurugram. The action was taken under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
The financial probe agency is examining cases against Saeed, who is the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), Syed Salahuddin, head of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), and others.
“We have identified 24 properties of Watali, bought in several states including Delhi, Harayana and Uttar Pradesh,” an ED source told IANS.
He refused to share details of these properties.
The value of the said properties is over Rs 15 crore. The source claimed that Watali received the money for the properties for “his services”. (IANS)
