ED tells CBI to probe Moin Qureshi case

Enforcement Directorate has sent a case reference to the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection to a case involving infamous meat exporter Moin Qureshi and two former directors of the probe agency.  

CBI sources on Thursday told DNA that the agency was examining a reference from Enforcement Directorate (ED) to probe alleged role of public servants in a money laundering case against Moin Qureshi who is facing money laundering and tax evasion cases.  In a letter to CBI, Enforcement Directorate chief Karnal Singh has asked the agency to register a case and probe Qureshi and public servants whose names are given in the annexures along with details of the investigations conducted till now by them and the Income Tax department. While the CBI claimed that the said reference does not carry names of the public servants, ED sources told DNA that the reference has their names in the annexures..

DNA had reported in the past about Qureshi’s links to former CBI director Ranjit Sinha and former Interpol chief Ronald Noble. DNA had accessed Blackberry messenger transcripts of Qureshi and his associates that figured Sinha and Noble in the conversations and several dealings discussed by the hawala trader in those messages.  Qureshi, a Doon school alumunus, shot into news after the Income-Tax department placed his phone under surveillance and started investigations.

The case emerged after Income Tax Department first carried out searches against Qureshi and his firm AMQ Group on February 15, 2014.