ED attaches multiple assets of Nawab Malik
14 Apr 2022 07:49:20
NEW DELHI,
Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday said that it has attached multiple assets of jailed Maharashtra Minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik under anti-money laundering law in a case against fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his underworld gang.
The federal probe agency said in a statement that it has issued a provisional order attaching properties belonging to “Mohammed Nawab Mohammed Islam Malik alias Nawab Malik, his family members, Solidus Investments Pvt. Ltd. and Malik Infrastructure under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).”
The properties include Goawala compound and a commercial unit in Mumbai’s suburban Kurla (West), a 147.79-acre agricultural land located in Osmanabad district of Maharashtra, three flats in Kurla (West) and two residential flats in Bandra (West).
Meanwhile, Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to consider listing for hearing Malik’s appeal seeking immediate release from prison in this money laundering case.
The ED arrested Malik in Mumbai in February in the money laundering case registered against Ibrahim and others. This ED case was filed after studying a February FIR of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) that booked Ibrahim and other members of his gang like Anees Ibrahim, Chhota Shakeel, Javed Chikna and
Tiger Memon.
“The FIR (of the NIA) stated that Dawood Ibrahim, after he
left India, started controlling his criminal activities in India through his close associates such as Haseena Parkar and others.” In one such case, the ED said, a prime property of Mrs Munira Plumber was “usurped” by Nawab Malik through Solidus Investments Pvt. Ltd., a company owned by the family members of Nawab Malik and controlled by Nawab Malik, with active connivance of the members of D-gang (Dawood Ibrahim gang) including Haseena Parkar. “For usurping this property, Haseena Parkar and Nawab Malik connived together and executed several legal documents to put a façade of genuinity for this criminal act,” the ED alleged.
Malik had contended before the HC that he had bought the property in a bona fide transaction three decades ago, and Plumber has now changed her mind about the transaction.