ED registers case against Zakir Naik for money laundering

The Enforcement Directorate has registered a case against controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik under the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act. A case has also been registered against Naik’s NGO Islamic Research Foundation in Mumbai. Recently the economic offences wing of the Mumbai Police investigated the foreign funding of the Islamic Research Foundation. NIA had also raided more than ten premises of IRF and seized documents, hard discs and CDs for



investigation. 

The ED officials are focusing on the charges of alleged funds laundered by Zakir Naik and its use in spreading communal disharmony. Naik’s NGO was banned by the Central government under the UAPA act for disturbing communal harmony and sanctioned an inquiry against him and IRF. The controversial preacher has been out of the country after it was found that his speeches influenced Dhaka attackers in Bangladesh who had killed 28 people in a cafe.