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The ED said in a statement that Azad used to operate a hawala network to facilitate the transmission of illegal border between India and Bangladesh, collecting payment in cash and UPI, and then transferred equal funds to Bangladesh using platforms like Bakesh.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a charge sheet against Ahmed Hussain Azad alias Azad Malik, a Pakistani citizen, who had been living in Kolkata for years and running a fake racket to provide Indian identity cards to Bangladeshis. The ED said in a statement that Azad used to operate a hawala network to facilitate the transmission of illegal border between India and Bangladesh, collecting payment in cash and UPI, and then transferred equal funds to Bangladesh using platforms like Bakesh.
The charge sheet under the Money Laundering Prevention Act (PMLA) was filed in a special court in Kolkata on 13 June. The court has already taken cognizance of this. The ED investigation is based on the FIR (FIR) filed against Azad and other unknown people under sections 14 and 14A of the Foreign Act, 1946. The Financial Crime Investigation Agency first raided the case on 15 April and later arrested him from Birati of North 24 Parganas.
The ED issued a statement on Monday saying that 53 -year -old Azad was initially considered Bangladeshi citizen, but he was living in India without valid documents and was found to be involved in making Indian passports and other documents through fraud for illegal immigrants in exchange for money. Earlier, in April, the agency stated that his two sons – Osama bin Azad and Omar Farooq – and his wife Maymuna Akhtar live in Bangladesh and are citizens of that country, while he also said that he often went to Bangladesh to meet his family.
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