Controversial Meat Exporter Moin Qureshi Returns to Face ED Probe

The Enforcement Directorate is probing Qureshi’s role in a money laundering case.

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Controversial meat exporter Moin Qureshi has returned to India and is expected to join investigations on Tuesday 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 on Tuesday.

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 the ED as well as the Income Tax Department for alleged tax evasion and money laundering, among others.

Probe Into Foreign Assets

The IT department had issued notices to Qureshi under the new Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015, as a probe led it to a few foreign assets owned or held by the meat exporter and his family in an alleged illegal manner.

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 left the country on 15 October from the IGI Airport despite a Look Out Circular issued by the ED against him.

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