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Intel tracks ISIS suspect’s associates, sympathisers

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Published : Dec 12, 2015, 5:21 am IST
Updated : Dec 12, 2015, 5:21 am IST

India to take part in meet to choke IS fund

India to take part in meet to choke IS fund

After the Paris terror attacks, India will participate in the first biggest meet of countries to formalise a blueprint to choke terror funding to the Islamic State. India is sending an inter-ministerial team to Paris for the special meeting of the global financial action taskforce. The meet has been specially called in the wake of the Paris attacks and repeated inputs regarding possible IS strikes on various Western capitals.

Meanwhile, Indian Oil corporation executive Mohd Sirazudin was arrested in Rajasthan for links to IS. He had been in touch with a girl in Hyderabad who was an ISIS sympathiser and was being tracked by Indian agencies. He was also in touch with two other persons in Maharashtra and was recruiting persons online for IS. The terror trail has now spread from Rajasthan to Maharashtra, Karnataka, Hyderabad with intelligence agencies scouting for more associates, sympathisers and recruits who may have been radicalised by the IOC executive. The Union home ministry has sought a report from the Rajasthan police on Sirazudin’s arrest. The arrest has put Indian agencies on its toes as it suspects such radicalised elements may carry out a “lone wolf” attack in the country.

The security brass is closely watching the forthcoming FATF meet on IS terror funding, which will thrash out steps to crack down on the financial routes of the ISIS and resolve to strangulate them.

Interestingly, while India will fully support the crack down on ISIS terror funding, it is likely to seek the FATF member countries’ support in bracketing Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in the same category as the ISIS since there have been repeated terror attacks in India funded and sponsored by outfits based in Pakistan.

“Be it the ISIS or the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba or D-company sponsored activities, the Indian team would bring to the notice of the FATF countries that no special meeting had been convened after major Pakistan-sponsored terror-strikes on Indian soil. Terror is terror and any funding to a terrorist outfit must be treated in the same manner,” a top official said.

India is a full voting member of the FATF , which is a specifically designed global financial platform supposed to target finances of all the organisations and countries acting in breach of the international laws. The UK, US, China, Australia, France, Germany, Italy and Canada are among the 34 countries which are part of the FATF.

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