New Delhi. ED has registered a case of money laundering against Islamic preacher Maulana Shamsul Huda. ED has taken this action on the basis of FIR registered by UP ATS. Maulana Shamsul Huda is originally from Azamgarh in UP but in 2013 he took British citizenship and currently lives in London. Maulana Shamsul Huda faces many serious allegations like promoting fundamentalist ideology under the guise of religious education and illegal funding from foreign countries. ED has started investigation against Maulana Shamsul Huda under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
In the year 1984, Maulana Shamsul Huda was appointed to the post of Assistant Teacher in a government aided madrassa. After this, in 2013, he took British citizenship, but despite this, he continued to draw salary as a teacher in India from 2013 to 2017. According to ED, Maulana Huda was not even in India during this period. It is alleged that in the last years, HUDA traveled to many countries and received funding worth crores of rupees in its 7-8 bank accounts operated from India. Maulana Huda also bought more than a dozen immovable properties during this period. The total value of these properties is said to be more than Rs 30 crore.
Maulana Shamsul Huda had also established two madrassas in Azamgarh and Sant Kabir Nagar, although the recognition of both the madrassas was later cancelled. Maulana Huda is accused of providing funds to these madrassas through her personal accounts and an NGO named Raja Foundation. Investigative agencies believe that this money received from abroad was used to promote radicalism. The investigating agencies have also received information that Maulana Shamsul had also gone to Pakistan.
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