Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah expressed his displeasure over the provisional attachment order of properties belonging to his father by the Enforcement Directorate.
Omar took to twitter with the comment: “The properties attached are largely ancestral dating from the 1970s with the most recent one built before 2003. There can be no justification for the seizures because they fail the very basic test of having been acquired as the proceeds of the ‘crime’ being investigated.”
The properties attached are largely ancestral dating from the 1970s with the most recent one built before 2003. There can be no justification for the seizures because they fail the very basic test of having been acquired as the proceeds of the “crime” being investigated.
— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) December 19, 2020
“My father has seen the media reports regarding attachment of his properties in the ongoing investigation in to the JKCA matter. Not surprisingly the media was tipped off regarding the seizure before he had received any official notice or documentation,” former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tweeted.
My father has seen the media reports regarding attachment of his properties in the ongoing investigation in to the JKCA matter. Not surprisingly the media was tipped off regarding the seizure before he had received any official notice or documentation.
— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) December 19, 2020
“Dr Abdullah is in touch with his lawyers & will fight all these baseless charges in the one place that matters – a court of law, where everyone is presumed to be innocent & is entitled to a fair trial unlike in the court of the media or the court of BJP managed social media,” he said.
Pertinently, it’s worth to mention here that the scam (JKCA Scam) surfaced in 2012 when the police registered an FIR against former treasurer of the JKCA Ahsan Mirza and the former general secretary Saleem Khan charging them of criminal breach of trust and criminal conspiracy. The charges against them were of diverting Rs 43.69 crore, received from BCCI as a subsidy, to three different accounts opened in the name of the JKCA by its officials. That time Dr. Abdullah was JKCA president.
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Earlier, in October, Abdullah was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate for his alleged role in irregularities in the working of Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association.
The officials then had said that Abdullah’s statement was recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and he was asked about the procedures followed and decisions taken when he was the president of the cricket body, the time when the scam is said to have taken place.
The CBI had also filed a charge sheet in 2018 against Abdullah, Khan, Mirza as well as former JKCA treasurer Mir Manzoor Gazanffer Ali and former accountants Bashir Ahmad Misgar and Gulzar Ahmad Beigh for the “misappropriation of JKCA funds amounting to Rs 43.69 crore” from grants given by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to promote the sport in the erstwhile state between 2002 and 2011.
