Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has unearthed what officials describe as a decade-long concealed operation inside the Jamia Islamia Ishaatul Uloom (JIIU) trust allegedly involving foreign-funding irregularities, hawala transactions and forged documentation used to facilitate the prolonged stay of a Yemeni couple on the madrasa campus in Akkalkuwa in Nandurbar.

Investigators say the trust projected one of the foreign nationals as “international faculty” to enhance its global profile and attract overseas donations, a pattern the agency believes amounts to money laundering, giving the ED jurisdiction to probe under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The ED’s action follows an FIR and chargesheet filed earlier this year by the Akkalkuwa police, which had alleged that se

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