New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday arrested Ahsan Ahmed Mirza, the then treasurer of the Jammu and Kashmir
Cricket Association (JKCA) in connection with alleged misappropriation of Rs 43 crore of the association's funds.
In the same case, the ED had earlier in July this year recorded the statement of former J&K Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah at its Chandigarh offices.
The ED's money-laundering case is based on a CBI FIR from 2015, which was registered on orders of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. The alleged scam first came to light in 2012, when the Srinagar police station had registered a case.
ED officials said that Mirza was arrested because he was unable to transactions that were under the probe agency's scanner.
The Central Bureau of Investigation had earlier filed a chargehseet against Abdullah, as the erstwhile president of the JKCA in addition to the then JKCA general secretary Mohammed Salim Khan, Mirza, and a senior J&K Bank executive Basheer Ahmad Misgar.
According to the CBI, the BCCI had between 2002 and 2011, granted Rs 112 crore to the JKCA for infrastructure development and
cricket promotion, out of which Rs 43.69 crore was allegedly siphoned off and misappropriated.