ED makes fresh arrest from Tamil Nadu in PFI-SDPI case

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..... ED makes fresh arrest from Tamil Nadu in PFI-SDPI case
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Dated:- 21-3-2025
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New Delhi, Mar 21 (PTI) The Enforcement Directorate has arrested a man from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu after fresh round of searches in a money laundering case against the SDPI, the political outfit of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI), official sources said. Wahidur Rahman Jainullabudeen was tak .....

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..... en into custody under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) from Mettupalayam in Coimbatore district on Thursday, the sources said. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) made the arrest after conducting searches at the house of Jainullabudeen, who has been brought to Delhi and is expected to be produced before a special PMLA court on Friday, they said. Freah raids were launched by the ED on T .....

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..... hursday in Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Kerala. The federal probe agency carried out the first round of searches in the case in the first week of March and arrested M K Faizy, the national president of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) The ED claimed before a court while seeking Faizy's remand that there existed an "organic" relation between the two outfits and that the PFI was c .....

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..... arrying out its criminal activities through the political party (SDPI). The Centre banned the PFI in September 2022, calling it an unlawful association which allegedly indulged in terrorist activities. Multi-agency searches by the ED, National Investigation Agency (NIA) and various state police forces preceded the PFI ban. Founded in 2009, the SDPI is registered as a political party with the El .....

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..... ection Commission of India. Seeking Faizy's remand earlier this week, the ED told the court that the PFI and the SDPI were "organically" linked and the latter was nothing but the "political front" of the former, and was "funded and controlled" by it. The agency claimed that it had evidence to state that there was a "deep-rooted" nexus between the two organisations as there was "overlapping" memb .....

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..... ership of their cadres, involvement of PFI office-bearers in the founding of the SDPI, and utilisation of each other's assets. PTI NES ARI
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