Acting on a tip-off by the Indian authorities, the Kuwaiti authorities have arrested a man who financed the stay of Areeb Majeed, an Indian national associated with the ISIS.
Acting on a tip-off by the Indian authorities, the Kuwaiti authorities have arrested a man who financed the stay of Areeb Majeed, an Indian national associated with the ISIS. Abdullah Hadi Abdul Rahman Al-Enezi (32) allegedly funded four youths from Kalyan, including Majeed, with $1,000 in 2014 when they were broke and trying to escape to Syria via Iraq to join the terror group. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had earlier sent a Mutual Legal Assistance Request to Kuwait in the Majeed case over the money transfer.
A source in NIA said, “The enforcement authorities in Kuwait arrested Al-Enezi after registering a case against him for allegedly helping Majeed and his three associates. Following his arrest, he confessed to sending $ 1,000 dollars to the four youths via private money-transfer service. He also reportedly admitted to having supported terrorist organisations after his return from Pakistan in 2013. Al-Enezi’s is the first arrest made abroad in the Majeed case.”
“It is being suspected that an Afghan IS handler Abdul Rehman had introduced the four youths to Al-Enezi, who helped them join the ISIS by facilitating their travel to Syria,” added the NIA source.
Kalyan youths Areeb Majeed along with Fahad Sheikh, Amaan Tandel and Saheem Tanki left for Iraq in May 2014 to join them in Syria. After spending six months with the ISIS, Majeed returned to India via Turkey, but was nabbed.
