Vadodara: When the Covid-19 pandemic crashed into the city last year, accused of Salahuddin Sheikh played an important role in starting a center at Waghodia Road where Covid patients were treated.
But the investigation has led the police to reveal that he actually used the center as the front to divert money illegally he got through foreign donations.
The police now scan bank accounts at this center and other organizations that are connected with Sheikh.
“The Prima Facie investigation shows that he used the Covid Center also for diverting foreign funding,” said a senior police officer.
The police were investigating how the defendant prepared a false bill, the cost of swelling, and then washing cash for funding legal costs the defendant was arrested in the protest of anti-citizenship and Delhi Riots and Delhi Riots.
“Sheikh is connected with several organizations and everything is under the scanner.
He is closely related to some people in Bharuch and a letter which is part of this money laundering racket.
Some more arrests are expected in the coming days,” the official said to Ti.
The researchers have submitted a transfer warrant in a local court and the police team is expected to go for Uttar Pradesh in a few days to take Sheikh’s custody and other people accused of Mohammed Umar.
Sheikh get foreign donations at AFMI Trust on behalf of social causes such as assistance to widows, buying food kits, funding hospitals and also for covid pandemics.
He used to make a fake bill to show this payment while money was transferred to another bank account for allegedly building a mosque and for conversion activities.
ATS ATS has captured MD Umar and Qazi Jahangir in June this year with allegations of people’s mass conversion through persuasion such as marriage or work.
Umar is thought to have repented more than 1,000 people.
He was allegedly involved in the conversion of mass of deaf and mute students, women and children.
During their interrogation, the police knew that the Sheikh bank account was used for hawala transactions.
Donations for misused trust: Police said Sheikh had transferred RS 7.27 Crore funds he got for AFMI Charitable Trust, where he was a trustee.
He misused foreign donations and sent it to build more than 100 mosques in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Assam and Madhya Pradesh in recent years.