Abdulla Hadi Abdul Rehman Al Enezi, was arrested in Kuwait for suspected links and for terror funding and recruitment for the Islamic State Group. Abdulla had reportedly sent USD 1000 to four men in India, including Areeb Majeed from Maharashtra who had joined the Islamic State in 2014.
The authorities in Kuwait arrested Abdulla Hadi Abdul Rehman Al Enezi after being tipped off by India's National Investigation Agency (NIA).
He is believed to have funded several ISIS sympathisers in India, including Panvel's (Maharashtra) Areeb Majeed who HAD returned to India months after joining the ranks of the ISIS in May 2014.
Areeb, who has been in the custody ever since, had told sleuths during the interrogation that Al Enezi had sent $1000 to him and his three friends (also ISIS sympathisers) from Kuwait when they were in Iraq in 2014.
Areeb was arrested by the NIA in the last week of November 2015 upon his return from Iraq and is booked under Sections 16, 18 and 20 of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and Section 125 of the Indian Penal Code.
Abdulla has admitted to supporting terrorist organisations and involvement in financing terrorism, after his return from Pakistan in 2013.
By Premji
