Terror Funding Case: NIA raids Kashmiri businessman Nasir Shafi Mir’s residences

Tightening noose in the terror funding case, National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday raided the residences of a fugitive Kashmiri businessman and his relatives in  Srinagar. NIA sleuths, escorted by police and paramilitary forces, raided the residences of Nasir Shafi Mir and his relatives at Lal Bazar and Ishber area on Tuesday morning.

However, no one was arrested or detained in the raids. It was not immediately known whether any material was seized from the premises.

Mir, who is absconding since 2008 after he jumped bail, has allegedly been living in Gulf countries including Dubai.  NIA had reregistered a case against Mir last year in connection with terror funding.  

A carpet dealer based in Lajpat Nagar Delhi, Mir was arrested by Delhi police in 2006 and recovered Rs 55 cash and other material. Later in 2014 Enforcement Directorate (ED) attached the cash recovered from Mir terming it “proceeds of crime of terrorist funding and money laundering”.

The raid comes 28 days after NIA raided the residence and the shop of the businessman Ajaz Ahmad Hakak in connection with the case related to terror funding by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba affiliate Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF),

The raids followed the arrest of three — Mohammad Salman, 52, Mohammad Salim alias Mama, 62, Sajjad Wani, 34 — on September 25.