New Delhi,
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday said it has attached assets worth Rs 7.32 lakh of a Kashmir-based alleged hawala operator in connection with a money laundering case linked to terror financing.
It said a provisional order for attachment, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), has been issued against Aijaz Hussain Khwaja. He is a resident of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir.
“The attached assets consist of a portion of a residential flat at Jangpura in Delhi and some bank balance held by Khwaja’s wife. The present market value of the attached property is higher,” the central probe agency said in a statement.
Khwaja, 57, was arrested in 2006 by the special cell of Delhi Police from the Lodhi Road area.
Police had then said Khwaja was one of the 44 winners of the President’s National Awards for artisans and handicrafts in 2003.
