“On account of increasing difficulties in pushing FICN through Bangladesh and Nepal into India, network operators are (now) exploring the Pakistan-Guangzhou-India route using commercial containers. They assess that increasing trade between India and China has led to a large number of containers arriving by the sea route in India,” says the report.
The report underlines terrorist links with FICN distribution and lists 15 cases of arrests, seizures and interrogation where FICN was linked to terrorist financing. For example, the report reveals how David Headley – the Lashkar mastermind behind 26/11 now in US custody – confessed to having been given Rs 2.5 lakh in FICN in Pakistan by his handler for a trip to India to plot the Mumbai attack.
