The National Investigation agency (NIA), which spearheading the crackdown on ISIS sympathisers and operatives based in India, had sent a Mutual Legal Assistance request to Kuwait in the Areeb Majeed-ISIS case.
A 32-year-old Kuwaiti national has been arrested by the authorities there for allegedly providing funds to Areeb Majeed, an Indian operative of the dreaded Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), who returned to Indian in 2014, months after working for the terror group in Syria. The arrest of the Kuwaiti man, identified as Abdulla Hadi Abdul Rehman Al Enezi, is one of the first arrests to have taken place in foreign country based on information provided by an Indian Intelligence agency.
The National Investigation agency (NIA), which spearheading the crackdown on ISIS sympathisers and operatives based in India,had sent a Mutual Legal Assistance request to Kuwait in the Areeb Majeed-ISIS case. The request was sent on the basis of interrogation of Majeed who had claimed that a total of $1000 were transferred towards him by a Kuwaiti national he and his three associates were staying in Iraq in May 2014. The funds were used to travel to Syria by the four youth.
"The Kuwaiti authorities have now informed that it has been found that one Abdullah Hadi Abdul Rahman Al-Enezi, 32 yrs, a Kuwaiti national indeed sent $1000 to Areeb Majeed through Western Union. He has admitted of having supported terrorist organisations and having been involved in financing of terrorism after his return from Pakistan in 2013. The Kuwaiti authorities have registered a case against him and arrested him on these charges," said a NIA spokesperson.
NIA officials added that Majeeb had sought help from Afghan national and alleged ISIS handler Abdul Rehman Dalauti after his money dried up in Iraq on his way to Syria. Dalauti then provided Majeeb with Enezi's phone number and told him to talk to Enezi for help. Majeed, who belongs to Panvel in Maharashtra, was arrested in November 2014 after he returned from Syria and booked under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) on charges of conspiring to commit a terrorist act and being a member of a banned foreign terror outfit, and under the stringent Section 125 of the IPC for "waging war against the nation."
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