Mumbai assault mastermind and LeT operations commander Lakhvi being interrogated

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Mumbai assault mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi is being interrogated by Pakistan’s counter terrorism authorities in Punjab province, an official stated on Wednesday, 4 days after his arrest.
UN proscribed terrorist Lakhvi, 61, who was on bail since 2015 within the Mumbai assault case, was arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab province on Saturday, amidst rising worldwide stress on Islamabad to convey to justice terrorists roaming free within the nation.
“Lakhvi is being interrogated by the CTD Punjab in connection with terror financing and related matters. He will soon be presented before the anti-terrorism court in Lahore,” an official aware about the event advised PTI.
He stated that Lakhvi is stored in a “detention centre”.
“Lakhvi is accused of running a dispensary, using funds collected for terrorism financing. He and others also collected funds from this dispensary and used these funds for further terrorism financing. He also used these funds for personal expenses,” the CTD stated.
Police or an another legislation enforcement company normally presents a suspect earlier than the court docket a day after his arrest to acquire his bodily remand for interrogation.
“Lakhvi’s case seems to be rare in which he could not be produced before the court four days after his arrest seeking his physical remand,” the official stated.
The CTD stated that along with belonging to proscribed organisation LeT, Lakhvi can also be a UN designated particular person.
“His trial will be held before the Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore,” it added.

Lakhvi was designated as a worldwide terrorist by the UN in December 2008 for being related to LeT and al-Qaeda and for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of” each the entities.
Proscribed terrorists and entities are topic to an belongings freeze, whereby all states are required to freeze funds and different monetary belongings or financial assets of designated people and entities, a journey ban that forestalls the entry into or transit by way of nations’ territories by the designated people and an arms embargo.
Last month, the UN Security Council’s 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee allowed for a month-to-month cost of Pakistani Rupee 1.5 lakh for Lakhvi to fulfill his private bills.
The permission was granted 10 days earlier than his arrest. Lakhvi has named his son Hafizur Rehman and brother Saadat Bashir Waheed who would ship him Rs 90,000 and Rs 60,000 respectively in his checking account. He stated that his son and brother each have the financial institution accounts in the identical department.
The LeT, led by Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, is liable for finishing up the 2008 Mumbai assault that killed 166 folks, together with six Americans.
The international terror financing watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is instrumental in pushing Pakistan to take measures in opposition to terrorists roaming freely in Pakistan and utilizing its territory to hold out assaults in India and elsewhere.
The Paris-based FATF positioned Pakistan on the Grey List in June 2018 and requested Islamabad to implement a plan of motion to curb cash laundering and terror financing by the top of 2019 however the deadline was prolonged in a while because of COVID-19 pandemic.
ATC Lahore had sentenced Saeed for a collective imprisonment of 36 years in terror finance circumstances.
He has been in Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore since July 2019. There are stories that he’s given a ‘VIP protocol’ in jail.
The UN has named Saeed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, and the US, since 2012, has provided a USD 10 million reward for info that brings Saeed to justice.
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