The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a supplemental persecution complaint (similar to a charge sheet) against Farooq Abdullah, Mir Manzoor Gazanffer, and other individuals in connection with its money laundering probe into the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) case.

The charge sheet was presented on June 4, and on Tuesday, a special court in Srinagar acknowledged it. The defendants must appear in court on August 27 after receiving a summons. The charge sheet was preceded by three provisional attachment orders dated 28.02.2020, 18.12.2020, and 25.02.2022, which attached the moveable and immovable assets worth a combined Rs. 21.55 crore of Dr Farooq Abdullah, M/s Mirza Sons, Mir Manzoor Gazanffer, and Ahsan Ahmad Mirza.

The issue involves the misuse of monies from the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association by transfers to many personal bank accounts of unconnected individuals, including those of JKCA office holders, and by suspicious cash withdrawals from JKCA bank accounts. Between 2002 and 2011, it is claimed that Rs 50 crore in funds were fraudulently taken from the JKCA’s bank accounts.

The agency claimed that, despite the fact that JKCA already had a bank account, six additional accounts were opened in order to allegedly park and siphon off money from that account. Farooq Abdullah is accused by the ED of abusing his position as organization president by appointing people to the sports organization in order to launder money.

In response to a charge sheet the Central Bureau of Probe filed against the association’s officers in 2018, the ED opened the money laundering investigation. In this regard, the CBI lodged an FIR in 2015.

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