NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has frozen Rs 68,62,081 in 23 bank accounts in the name of Popular Front of India (PFI) and its subsidiary organizations. It includes Rs 59 lakhs in PFI’s 23 accounts and Rs 9.50 lakhs in 10 accounts of PFI’s front organization Rehab India Foundation (RIF).

“An amount of more than Rs 60 crore have been deposited in the accounts of PFI which includes cash deposit of more than Rs 30 crore since 2009. Similarly, around Rs 58 Crore have been deposited in the accounts of RIF since 2010,” ED said in a statement. Funds have been mobilised through well-organized network in Gulf countries as well. The money is then send to India through underground and illegal channels and by way of foreign remittances into the bank accounts of sympathisers, office bearers, members and their relatives and associates.

The bank accounts have been frozen following the complaint lodged by the ED in the Lucknow court as per the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.