The ED official suspect that Gazdar is the one who had been allegedly conducting all the 'illegal' activities of Naik and he was the one who used to allegedly collect the money in cash and would dispose it without keeping trail of it.
A day after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials arrested Aamir Gazdar, a close aide of controversial televangelist Dr Zakir Naik in connection with the Prevention of Money Laundering Act(PMLA) case, it is revealed during the investigation that Gazdar allegedly played a pivotal role in financial transactions of Naik's Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) and other firms of Naik since 2013.
The ED official suspect that Gazdar is the one who had been allegedly conducting all the 'illegal' activities of Naik and he was the one who used to allegedly collect the money in cash and would dispose it without keeping trail of it.
During the interrogation it has also been revealed that Gazdar is director of six companies out of which two companies are based abroad while others are in Mumbai including Harmony Media that used to provide digital content of the videos of provocative speeches and are exported to Dubai for telecasting.
According to ED officials, Gazdar has admitted in his statement about the huge amount of transactions and has also accepted the fact that he knows other associates of Zakir Naik in India and abroad. The other employees in their statements have also mentioned about Gazdar's role in the money trail. Gazdar is director of the Universal Broadcasting Pvt Ltd and Lords Production Pvt Ltd, both the companies are based in England.
ED officials told the PMLA Court on Friday that in his first statement, Gazdar denied any relation with those six companies and about the money trail but when he was summoned for a second time and records of his involvement were shown to him, he admitted that he was aware of the financial activities of Naik. He also indulged the details of his monetary transactions in the guise of providing loans to Harmony Media where he is also director and the office of the firm is owned by him.
"He is aware about the dubious financial activities of IRF and other firms of Naik and also knows the whereabouts of Naik but is not divulging the details. He is not co-operating with the investigation. He is misleading the investigation and trying to cover Naik," said ED offcial.
Meanwhile, the ED has sent third summonS to Naik.
Gazdar was remanded to five days ED custody by a special PMLA Court on Friday.
Gazdar was arrested after collecting the evidence and available money trail in respect of offence of money laundering as defined under section 3 and punishable under section 4 of PMLA.
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