ED Seeks Info From MEA On Visa Granted To Pakistani Citizen Arrested In Kolkata

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has sought knowledge from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) at the visa granted to Azad Mullick, the Pakistani infiltrator who was once arrested in Kolkata by means of the ED officers previous this 12 months in reference to faux passport and hawala rackets. 

Azad Mullick, at the beginning a Pakistani citizen, first organized for Bangladeshi citizenship the use of cast paperwork and thereafter got here to India on a criminal visa.

However, after coming to India, he quickly organized faux Indian identification paperwork for himself, together with an Indian passport. This was once once more executed with using cast paperwork, and he even began working a faux passport and hawala industry from his rented lodging within the northern outskirts of Kolkata.

Sources mentioned that the ED sought knowledge from the MEA at the paperwork produced by means of Azad, then as a Bangladeshi citizen, whilst making use of for the Indian visa.

The ED additionally sought the main points of the body of workers of MEA who tested Azad’s visa utility at that time limit.

Azad’s unique identify as a Pakistani citizen was once Azad Hossain, which he modified to Ahammed Hossain Azad when he controlled Bangladeshi citizenship via unfair approach.

Finally, within the faux Indian passport, his identify was once discussed as Azad Mullick. During his arrest, two faux EPIC playing cards, more than one faux using licences, and 4 faux start certificate have been additionally seized by means of the Investigating Officers from his ownership.

The Investigating Officers are actually probing Azad’s imaginable hyperlinks with other terror teams.

Recently, the ED had knowledgeable a different Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court docket in Kolkata that some extremely delicate knowledge from particular person and workforce chats in WhatsApp was once secured from the cell phones of Azad.

These discoveries gave the Investigating Officers a transparent concept of the people in neighbouring Bangladesh who have been recipients of the cash routed via Hawala from Kolkata.

Considering that the actions and conversations in positive teams have been moderately suspicious, ED officers are actually investigating whether or not the cash routed via hawala to Bangladesh was once utilized in terror investment or no longer.