Kuwait man held for funding Indian Islamic State sympathisers

A man has been arrested in Kuwait, for allegedly funding Islamic State (ISIS) sympathisers in India.

Official sources said the information about the arrest has been conveyed by Kuwait to the NIA through the Ministry of External Affairs.

Kuwaiti has arrested a citizen identified as Abdulla Hadi Abdul Rehman Al-Enezi for suspected links to Daesh (the so-called IS) terror outfit, media reports said on Saturday.

Majeed, a civil engineering student from Kalyan in Mumbai, was part of a group of four who had left India on 23 May 2014 to join and fight for the IS in Iraq.

Abdullah Hadi Abdul Rahman Al-Enezi was arrested after NIA had sent a Mutual Legal Assistance Request to Kuwait after Majeed admitted getting financial amounting to $1,000 to go to Syria in 2014.

NIA is likely to send a team to Kuwait to interrogate Al-Enezi.

NIA arrested Majeed in November 2015 when he returned from Iraq. Abdulla had reportedly sent Dollars 1000 to four men in India, including Areeb Majeed from Maharashtra who had joined the Islamic State in 2014. Their travel was arranged by an Afghan national – Rehman Daulati, who is learnt to have arranged finances for other IS recruits as well.

According to reports, Hadi is believed to have funded and recruited Indians for the terror outfit, paying up to United States dollars 1,000 to the recruits, including Mumbai youth Areeb Majid.

The Kuwaiti authorities arrested him on these charges. He had also confessed to have been involved in financing Daesh, especially after returning from a visit to Pakistan in 2013. Abdullah told him to collect U.S. dollars 1000 from a Western Union Money Transfer branch in Baghdad.

Majeed and others used the money for travelling to Syria.