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A leading Indian Bengali daily on Friday published a report claiming that Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami had received a large amount of money from Indian giant Saradha through West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress lawmaker Ahmed Hassan Imran.
In a front-page article on Ananda Bazar Patrika titled ‘Saradha’s money in Jamaat’s terrorism too’, the daily attributed the information to an intelligence report prepared by Bangladeshi intelligence agencies and given to the Indian government.
‘According to the report of intelligence agencies in Bangladesh, crores of taka from Saradha was used to create anarchy in Bangladesh and Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP Ahmed Hassan Imran was involved in this,’ read the article.
It also said Bangladesh government raised the allegation with Indian authorities.
The report claimed ‘The intelligence of the country [Bangladesh] claimed a huge amount of money channeled through Imran reached Jamaat-e-Islami and its different front organisations in 2012-13.’
Indian intelligence, the report said, corroborated these claims.
It continued ‘Fundamentalists had unleashed a reign of terror in Bangladesh after the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami league government launched the war crimes trial against top leaders of Jamaat.’
‘Another fundamentalist organisation, Hefajat-e-Islam, came into being when the government threatened to ban Jamaat. They conspired to depose the government by besieging Dhaka. According to intelligence sources, a lot of money was sent to Bangladesh to trigger that event and a lion’s share of the money came from Saradha,’ read the report.
Saradha Group is a consortium of over 200 private companies that run a wide variety of collective investment schemes in Eastern India.
The report also said several consignments of arms and ammunitions, alongside the money, reached Jamaat through Imran.
In support of its report, the daily quoted statements of ruling AL alliance lawmakers and diplomats.
‘Before 2011, the Jamaat helped Trinamool with huge funds secretly transferred across the border. Imran played a key role in that. Later, when Jamaat faced the government’s ire during its opposition to war crimes trials, it received funds from Trinamool, which had come to power in 2011, and many of whose leaders were ministers in the Manmohan Singh government,’ the Ananda Bazar Patrika report said.
Mamata Banerjee’s stiff resistance to the Teesta water sharing deal and the Land Boundary Agreement is part of the ploy to destabilise the Sheikh Hasina regime, the report claimed.
‘She (Mamata) is totally influenced by some Urdu-speaking Muslim leaders in her party who are close to Jamaat and who mobilised critical minority support and huge funds for her in the rundown to the 2011 West Bengal polls when the Left was ousted from power,’ it said.
However, Imran, also the editor of Kolkata-based daily Dainik Kalam, has reportedly denied the allegations saying a smear campaign was being launched against him because he was a minority Muslim lawmaker from Kolkata.
Dainik Kalam also published an article in which Imran defended himself as a victim of smear campaign.
- See more at: Huge funds reached Jamaat through Trinamool MP: Ananda Bazar | New Age
A leading Indian Bengali daily on Friday published a report claiming that Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami had received a large amount of money from Indian giant Saradha through West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress lawmaker Ahmed Hassan Imran.
In a front-page article on Ananda Bazar Patrika titled ‘Saradha’s money in Jamaat’s terrorism too’, the daily attributed the information to an intelligence report prepared by Bangladeshi intelligence agencies and given to the Indian government.
‘According to the report of intelligence agencies in Bangladesh, crores of taka from Saradha was used to create anarchy in Bangladesh and Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP Ahmed Hassan Imran was involved in this,’ read the article.
It also said Bangladesh government raised the allegation with Indian authorities.
The report claimed ‘The intelligence of the country [Bangladesh] claimed a huge amount of money channeled through Imran reached Jamaat-e-Islami and its different front organisations in 2012-13.’
Indian intelligence, the report said, corroborated these claims.
It continued ‘Fundamentalists had unleashed a reign of terror in Bangladesh after the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami league government launched the war crimes trial against top leaders of Jamaat.’
‘Another fundamentalist organisation, Hefajat-e-Islam, came into being when the government threatened to ban Jamaat. They conspired to depose the government by besieging Dhaka. According to intelligence sources, a lot of money was sent to Bangladesh to trigger that event and a lion’s share of the money came from Saradha,’ read the report.
Saradha Group is a consortium of over 200 private companies that run a wide variety of collective investment schemes in Eastern India.
The report also said several consignments of arms and ammunitions, alongside the money, reached Jamaat through Imran.
In support of its report, the daily quoted statements of ruling AL alliance lawmakers and diplomats.
‘Before 2011, the Jamaat helped Trinamool with huge funds secretly transferred across the border. Imran played a key role in that. Later, when Jamaat faced the government’s ire during its opposition to war crimes trials, it received funds from Trinamool, which had come to power in 2011, and many of whose leaders were ministers in the Manmohan Singh government,’ the Ananda Bazar Patrika report said.
Mamata Banerjee’s stiff resistance to the Teesta water sharing deal and the Land Boundary Agreement is part of the ploy to destabilise the Sheikh Hasina regime, the report claimed.
‘She (Mamata) is totally influenced by some Urdu-speaking Muslim leaders in her party who are close to Jamaat and who mobilised critical minority support and huge funds for her in the rundown to the 2011 West Bengal polls when the Left was ousted from power,’ it said.
However, Imran, also the editor of Kolkata-based daily Dainik Kalam, has reportedly denied the allegations saying a smear campaign was being launched against him because he was a minority Muslim lawmaker from Kolkata.
Dainik Kalam also published an article in which Imran defended himself as a victim of smear campaign.
- See more at: Huge funds reached Jamaat through Trinamool MP: Ananda Bazar | New Age
