The Financial Action Task Force, an organization that curbs the financing of terrorism across the world, has warned in its report that extremist leftist groups want to overthrow the Indian government. These groups do not want the Modi government to remain in power in India, although these groups have been partially or completely successful in some places of the country. But due to strong leadership like PM Modi, such audacity is almost impossible in India.
In this report, FATF has clearly stated that India faces various types of terrorist threats, in which it has named Al Qaeda, ISIL and groups active in the areas around Jammu and Kashmir. But it also wrote that left wing extremist groups want to overthrow the Indian government.
This is not being said by any common man, this is being said by a leading organization of the world which has been working for decades to stop terror financing.
Formed in 1989 with 40 members, FATF is an intergovernmental body that creates international standards to prevent illegal activities and protect global society. If this organisation, which keeps an eye on countries around the world, says something about India, it is not only about India, it is about the whole world. Even a covert attack on India will cause great harm to the global community, it will create food insecurity, it will endanger democracy. Therefore, the world should take seriously what this report is saying about the world’s largest democracy. Especially those who are members of this organisation or the countries whose membership has been revoked.
This report is not just about India, the network of these extremist elements is not only in India but is spread all over the world. These divisive and destructive forces are also concentrated in developed countries like the US and Canada and some European safe havens. In fact, they are flourishing with their propaganda in the respective countries only under the guise of liberalism, freedom of speech and so-called persecution from their countries of birth. The countries giving them shelter for their narrow political gains are harming their own citizens, by settling these people in their country they are creating such conditions for the coming generations, which will be very impossible.
In its report, FATF has given full support to the Modi government for dealing strictly with money launderers and terrorist financiers and has also patted its back. To understand the anti-terrorism action taken by the Indian government, we can take the case of “Hurriyat Conference” as an example.
The NIA had registered a case in 2017 based on information that terror groups Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hizbul Mujahideen and Dukhtaran-e-Millat-All Party Hurriyat Conference and members from across the border were jointly carrying out terror activities in Jammu and Kashmir. The NIA arrested 16 people in this case. The money trail related to one of them, Mr. Z, revealed funding from outside India in a foreign account, which was identified using information from Egmont channels as well as FIU-IND. Subsequent investigations revealed that with the help of this money, he started several companies in India.
The money came into the foreign account opened by Mr Z through hawala as well as shell companies and was received with the help of another Mr Y. Mr Z was the main user of the money and showed himself as a financial conduit and Mr X used the money to bring Mr Z to India on the pretext of buying fake land. But the whole story was busted through Mr Z’s chartered accountant. His documents revealed that the money was sent to terrorists and banned terror groups as well as to Mr Y. Mr Y, a prominent figure in the Hurriyat Conference, had close links with terrorists. These documents revealed that he used the money to support these terror activities. When evidence surfaced, these three were arrested one by one. Later, other suspects were also arrested.
Charges were framed against these three in March 2022. Of these, after getting strong evidence against Mr. Y, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 10 lakh in 2022. The case against the other two is still going on. The report said that the NIA received an order for attachment of the property of the accused. In this attachment, the value of the property of the three was estimated to be around Rs 60 million.
The Indian government has a zero tolerance policy against all such illegal and anti-national activities, this is because the government has abandoned the previous regime’s policy of minority (the so-called minority which is the second largest population in the world) appeasement. But liberals, left-leaning intellectuals and urban Naxals are working hard to bring back the old regime. After reading this report released by FATF, global leaders should be alert and work together to thwart the nefarious designs of left wing extremist groups trying to overthrow the government of democratic countries.
