Qureshi returns to India; grilled by ED

Controversial meat exporter Moin Qureshi returned to India and was today questioned at length by the ED here in a money laundering and alleged hawala dealings case.
Officials said Qureshi, who arrived here from London yesterday, was grilled for over seven hours at the agency's office here, even as he was confronted with various documents seized by the agency and those obtained from the Income Tax department.
The agency had also asked him to join the probe citing a court-issued directive in this regard.
They said while he was questioned about a number of transactions, the businessman is also understood to have submitted some financial documents to the Investigating Officer (IO) of the case.

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 ED as well as the I-T department for alleged tax evasion, money laundering and hawala-like deals among others.

The Income Tax department had sometime back issued notices to Qureshi under the new Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015 as probe led it to few foreign assets owned or held by the meat exporter and his family in an alleged illegal manner as they were not declared or reported to Indian tax authorities.

The case emerged after tax department first carried out searches against Qureshi and his firm AMQ Group on February 15, 2014.
The meat exporter had on October 15 left the country from the IGI airport here 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.