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Business News/ Politics / Policy/  Moin Qureshi returns to India to face ED probe in money laundering case
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Moin Qureshi returns to India to face ED probe in money laundering case

Meat exporter Moin Qureshi is facing probes by Enforcement Directorate and income tax department for alleged tax evasion, money laundering, among others

Delhi High court had ordered meat exporter Moin Qureshi in October to return to face probe by Enforcement Directorate and income tax department. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/ MintPremium
Delhi High court had ordered meat exporter Moin Qureshi in October to return to face probe by Enforcement Directorate and income tax department. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/ Mint

New Delhi: Controversial meat exporter Moin Qureshi has returned to India and is expected to join on Tuesday investigations before the enforcement directorate (ED), which is probing his role in a money laundering case. Officials said Qureshi arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) on Monday night after which ED sleuths served him a court-issued directive to present himself before the agency.

They said the businessman is expected to depose before the investigating officer (IO) of the case, as per directives of the court. The Delhi High court—while hearing a plea filed by Qureshi—had last month directed him to return to India by mid-November and appear before the agency for questioning in this case. The meat exporter is facing probes by ED as well as the I-T department for alleged tax evasion, money laundering among others. The income tax department had issued notices to Qureshi under the new Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015 as probe led it to few foreign assets owned or held by the meat exporter and his family in an alleged illegal manner as they were not declared or reported to Indian tax authorities.

The case emerged after tax department first carried out searches against Qureshi and his firm AMQ Group on 15 February 2014. The meat exporter had on 15 October left the country from the IGI airport despite a look out circular issued by the ED against him.

The agency had asked the CBI to probe the role of public servants in allegedly favouring Qureshi in his deals.

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Published: 22 Nov 2016, 11:59 AM IST
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