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| Police bust LeT terror fund scam | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 8: The J&K Police today claimed to have busted a major terror financing scam by arresting two traders who were reportedly acting as conduits and funding activities of Lashkar-e-Toiba militants in the state.
The Police said that they busted a hawala racket involving traders and businessmen in Punjab and Jammu who allegedly funnel funds to Lashkar-e-Toiba militants in the Kashmir Valley — and get huge cuts in return.
There have been such arrests in the past as well but this is the first time that traders from outside the Valley have been allegedly involved in such funding.
Sources confirmed to The Indian Express that four businessmen were arrested during raids after an alleged conduit was picked up handing over cash to an “overground worker (OGW)” in Banihal. An OGW is an unarmed guide and handler to militants.
Police said militants are taking advantage of the absence of legal banking facilities for trade across the Line of Control — it currently runs on a barter system.
Sources said police put Budgam resident and businessman Mushtaq Ahmad under surveillance for a year and trapped him recently when he was handing over Rs 10 lakh to an OGW identified as Abdullah. Both were arrested.
“Mushtaq Ahmad set up the shop in a plush Srinagar locality as a front and most of the time, it remained shut,” a police officer investigating the case said. “Once we searched the shop, we found grenades there.”
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