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Pakistan justice sentences Hafiz Saeed to 11 years in jail in apprehension financing cases
- Updated: February 13, 2020
Islamabad: Mumbai conflict designer and Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) arch Hafiz Saeed was on Wednesday condemned to 11 years in jail by an anti-terrorism probity in Pakistan in dual apprehension financing cases.
Saeed, a UN designated militant whom a US has placed a USD 10 million annuity on, was arrested on Jul 17 in a apprehension financing cases. He is lodged during a Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail in high security.
A probity central reliable to PTI that Saeed was condemned in dual apprehension financing cases purebred opposite him in Lahore and Gujranwala cities on a focus of a Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab police.
The probity condemned Saeed to 5 and a half years and imposed a excellent of Rs 15,000 in any case. The sentences of both cases will run concurrently. The anti-terrorism probity or ATC had indicted Saeed and his tighten aides on Dec 11 in a apprehension financing cases.
On final Saturday, Lahore ATC decider Arshad Hussain Bhutta deferred a outcome opposite Saeed in dual apprehension financing cases compartment Feb 11. In a dual cases, a charge constructed some 20 or so witnesses in a ATC who testified opposite Saeed and his tighten aides for their impasse in apprehension financing. Saeed pleaded “not guilty” in both a cases.
The Counter Terrorism Department had purebred 23 FIRs opposite Saeed and his accomplices on a charges of apprehension financing in opposite cities of Punjab province. The cases were purebred opposite Saeed and others in Lahore, Gujranwala and Multan for collection of supports for terrorism financing by assets/properties done and hold in a names of Trusts/Non Profit Organisations including Al-Anfaal Trust, Dawatul Irshad Trust, Muaz Bin Jabal Trust, etc.
According to a CTD, review launched into financing matters of restricted organisations – JuD and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) – in tie with doing of UN Sanctions opposite these Designated Entities and Persons as destined by NSC (National Security Committee) in a assembly of Jan 1, 2019 chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan for implementing a National Action Plan.
“These suspects done resources from supports of terrorism financing. They hold and used these resources to lift some-more supports for serve terrorism financing. Hence, they committed mixed offences of terrorism financing and income laundering underneath Anti Terrorism Act 1997. They will be prosecuted in ATCs (Anti Terrorism Courts) for elect of these offences,” a CTD said.
The crackdown on Saeed’s outfit final year followed a warning by a Paris-based Financial Action Task Force to Pakistan to broach on a commitments to quell apprehension financing and income laundering.
Saeed-led JuD is a front organization for a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) that is obliged for carrying out a 2008 Mumbai conflict that killed 166 people, including 6 Americans. The US Department of a Treasury has designated Saeed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, and a US, given 2012, has offering a USD 10 million prerogative for information that brings Saeed to justice. He was listed underneath a UN Security Council Resolution 1267 in Dec 2008.