JKCA scam: ED may register money-laundering case

“ED is currently in the process of studying all the documents from the different investigative agencies related to the alleged sports scam. <g data-gr-id="22">Action</g> is likely to be initiated once the money laundering link is established in the case,”  a source said.

The source further said the ED was of the impression that nothing could have moved in the association without the knowledge of former JKCA President and former state Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah and that he was very much on the radar of ED’s investigation. However, in CBI FIR Former JKCA President Farooq Abdullah is not named.

On the direction of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court the CBI on September 22 registered a case into alleged multi-crore-rupee cricket fund scam against accused Saleem Khan and Mohd Ahsan Mirza under sections of 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 406 and 409 (criminal breach of trust) of the Ranbir Penal Code on the charges of misappropriation of funds by operating bogus accounts in different branches of Jammu and Kashmir bank under their joint signatures.

JKCA member Ahsan Mirza, who was acting as the treasurer of Cricket Association from 2005 to 2011, and the Administrative Officer Saleem Khan (then General Secretary) were diverting some of the funds received from the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) to fake accounts created in the name of Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association. 

The sports scam surfaced in July 2012 after the JKCA launched an investigation based on a report which revealed that some members of the association <g data-gr-id="17">has</g> siphoned off more than Rs 40 crores meant for the “promotion of the game”.