New Delhi: Controversial meat exporter Moin Akhtar Qureshi has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with money laundering probe against him and others.
The Enforcement Directorate officials said Qureshi was arrested late on Friday night here after he was called for questioning in the case.
The meat exporter has been arrested under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and would be produced before a court on Saturday, they said, alleging that he was not cooperating in the probe.
Qureshi has been questioned multiple times in the past by the agency which is probing him after it registered two FIRs under the PMLA.
In the latest FIR against him this year, former CBI director A.P. Singh has also been named.
Qureshi has been arrested in this case, they said. The earlier PMLA case against Qureshi was booked by the ED in 2015, based on an Income Tax prosecution complaint.
The ED, in a statement, said that its probe has revealed facts which “constitute omission and commission of certain acts on the part of certain public servants holding high positions in the public office in collusion with Qureshi, thereby huge amount of illegal money was found to have been transacted”.
The records collected by the ED from the Income Tax (I-T) department, in the form of BlackBerry Messenger messages, has “revealed that Qureshi has taken huge amount of money from different persons for obtaining undue favours from public servants after exercising his personal influence”, it said.
