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PETALING JAYA: Police Inspector General Abdul Hamid Bador said they had not received any information from any law enforcement agency that a Malaysia-based Rohingya group is planning a terrorist attack in India.
Earlier today, The Times of India (TOI) reported that Indian intelligence agencies were believed to have intercepted financial transactions, suggesting that the Rohingya group was in an advanced stage of orchestrating a terrorist attack in that country.
“It is a first for me. So far, we have not received any information about this from any enforcement agency, ”Hamid told the FMT in a text message.
According to the TOI report, intelligence suggested that the group, led by a Myanmar-trained woman, could attempt an attack on an Indian city in the coming weeks.
An intelligence document, seen by the newspaper, stated that a series of suspicious transactions targeting India amounting to more than RM820,000 (15 million Indian rupees) had been traced back to a Kuala Lumpur-based Rohingya leader and others.
Intelligence sources said they were trying to find out if a Rohingya militant group, which went unnoticed last year for raising funds for Rohingya refugees in Malaysia, was involved in the current set of transfers.
The TOI report also said that Indian authorities were also verifying whether these transactions had ties to the controversial preacher Zakir Naik, who was granted permanent residence in Malaysia.
Naik has been wanted by the Indian authorities since 2016 on charges of money laundering and inciting extremism through hate speech.
