SRINAGAR: president of the National Conference Farooq Abdullah appeared before the direction of execution on Wednesday, for the second time this week, for questioning in connection with a money laundering investigation in an alleged multi-crore scam in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA).
The 82-year-old former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir was interrogated for more than six hours on October 19 in the case.
After questioning on Monday, Abdullah had said that he was not concerned and would cooperate in the investigation.
The latest round of interrogations took place four days after the main political parties in Jammu and Kashmir, including the NC and the PDP, met at Abdullah’s residence and formed the People’s Alliance for the ‘Gupkar Declaration’.
ED officials said Abdullah’s statement will be recorded under the Prevention of Money laundering Act (PMLA) as in the past. He was interrogated for the first time in July last year in Chandigarh.
It is understood that the DE is questioning Abdullah about his role and the decisions made when the alleged fraud in the association occurred when he was president of the JKCA.
The agency’s case is based on an FIR presented by the CBI, which registered former JKCA officials, including Secretary General Mohammed Saleem Khan and former Treasurer Ahsan Ahmad Mirza.
The CBI had also filed a charge sheet in 2018 against Abdullah, Khan, Mirza, as well as former JKCA treasurer Mir Manzoor Gazanffer Ali and former accountants Bashir Ahmad Misgar and Gulzar Ahmad Beigh for the “misappropriation of funds from the JKCA worth Rs 43.69 crore “of the grants. given by the Cricket Control Board in India (BCCI) to promote the sport in the old state between 2002 and 2011.
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