In a letter to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA), the Indian Intelligence agencies warned that Kerala-based jihadi groups have opened business outlets in several parts of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) which facilitates Indians with criminal background hiding in other Gulf countries to evade arrest in India, reports Zee News on October 31. Reportedly, the jihadi business outlets recruits economically weak Indians expats in the UAE and motivates them to adopt Islam as a religion. There are inputs that a jihadi group based in Kerala [unspecified] is collecting INR three crore in Qatar for managing the court cases of Muslim groups who participated in various protest in India. Their members in Qatar are also sending money to Kerala through Hawala (illegal money transfer) channels, said an official at UMHA [unidentified].