(Columbus Dispatch) The Hilliard Division of Police announced Thursday afternoon that it is not pursuing a criminal investigation against Romin Iqbal, former executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Ohio chapter (CAIR-Ohio).
Iqbal, 45, was fired on Tuesday from his role as the executive director of the CAIR-Ohio office, which covers Columbus and Cincinnati. He worked out of the Columbus office, in Hilliard, since 2006 and was its executive director since 2018.
He was fired for sending confidential CAIR information to the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), an anti-Muslim organization, since at least 2008.
Columbus office staff members also found a package with AR-15 weapon materials on Monday in its office and then discovered that they had been purchased using a CAIR credit card that only Iqbal had had access to and that he administered, said Whitney Siddiqi, community affairs director for CAIR-Ohio.
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