Mumbai attacks mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Saeed and 12 of his close aides will be arrested “very soon”, police said on Thursday, a day after Pakistani authorities booked them for committing multiple offences of terrorism financing and money laundering. As the FIRs have been registered the suspects will be arrested shortly,” Punjab police spokesperson Niyab Haider Naqvi told PTI. Pakistan failed to complete its action plan on terror financing on the FATF’s deadline in June last. On Wednesday, the CTD said it booked Saeed and 12 aides for ‘terror financing’ in 23 cases after “irrefutable evidence” against them was detected. Hence, they committed multiple offences of terrorism financing and money laundering under Anti-Terrorism Act 1997.

Source: Hindustan Times July 04, 2019 10:30 UTC