SRINAGAR: Probe agencies have found a common link between money received by Firdous Ahmad Shah, a member of Syed Ali Shah Geelanis hardline Hurriyat Conference, and financiers of 26/11.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which recently filed its first charge sheet in a money laundering case in the Kashmir Valley, has alleged that Shah, Chairman of Democratic Political Movement, received over Rs three crore between 2007 to 2010.
The money was received from Madina Trading located in Brescia in Italy and sender was claimed to be Javed Iqbal, a resident of Pakistani Kashmir. However, after Italian police arrested two Pakistani nationals in 2009, it was alleged that the firm had made nearly 300 transfers in the name of Iqbal, who probably had never set his foot in Italy.
The Italian police, while concluding the probe had said the Brescia-based company had made several transfers using the identity of totally innocent, unsuspecting persons, whose identity cards or passports may have been stolen.
