The Enforcement Directorate is probing the financial transactions related to over 2,000 foreign nationals who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Nizamuddin here this March. The agency had earlier registered a money laundering case based on an FIR lodged by the Delhi police.
The foreigners had come from more than 40 countries. Most of them were from Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan and Malaysia. They face allegations of violating visa rules and the Foreigners Act provisions, besides visiting restricted areas during the lockdown without permission.
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The government has blacklisted about 1,000 such foreign nationals, while the police have issued look-out circulars against close to 1,900.
“We are pursuing all the aspects of money-laundering allegations, including financial transactions pertaining to those who came from a