Meat exporter Moin Qureshi allowed to fly after being detained at airport

October 15, 2016 18:30

Controversial Delhi-based meat exporter Moin Qureshi was on Saturday briefly detained at the Indira Gandhi International Airport based on a look out circular issued by the Enforcement Directorate against him in a money laundering case but was later allowed to fly to Dubai.

Officials said immigration authorities first alerted Enforcement Directorate sleuths after they intercepted Qureshi, who reached the airport to take a flight to Dubai.

The action was taken based on a ED look out circular against him. Subsequently, a team of ED officials arrived to take his custody, they said.

However, according to airport officials, Qureshi told authorities that he has furnished a bond and got the courts nod to travel abroad even as he got a fax sent in this regard

from his legal team to the airport, based on which immigration authorities allowed him to travel.

We have sought the documents from immigration authorities based on which Qureshi was allowed to travel. Our officials were on the spot to take his custody but he was allowed to fly abroad, ED sources said.

It is understood that the agency has wanted to question Qureshi for long and had issued summons to him but could lay their hands on him only on Saturday.

The agency had registered a money laundering case against Qureshi under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act last year. He is under the scanner of probe agencies for alleged tax evasion and hawala-like dealings.

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