By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Abbas Ansari, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Birthday party MLA from Mau and son of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, in a cash laundering case, officers mentioned on Saturday.
Abbas Ansari, 30, used to be arrested after an extended wondering consultation on the federal company’s place of work in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, they mentioned.
He has been arrested within the cash laundering case being investigated towards his father and circle of relatives, they mentioned. Ultimate month, the ED had connected seven immovable belongings of Mukhtar Ansari value Rs 1.48 crore (registry worth).
Mukhtar Ansari, a five-time former MLA, is these days lodged in prison in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda. The 59-year-old used to be puzzled through the ED on this case closing 12 months.
The company had additionally raided the legitimate place of abode of his elder brother and BSP MP Afzal Ansari in Delhi and a few places in Ghazipur, Mohammadabad (in Ghazipur district), Mau and Lucknow in August.
The cash laundering case towards Mukhtar Ansari stems from a couple of FIRs registered through the Uttar Pradesh Police excluding two lodged towards an organization known as Vikas Buildings (a partnership company) that used to be run through his spouse, two brothers-in-law and others.
Mukhtar Ansari is beneath the ED scanner in reference to no less than 49 prison circumstances towards him together with the ones on fees of land grabbing, homicide and extortion.
He’s going through trial in numerous circumstances, together with an try to homicide and homicide, in Uttar Pradesh.
In August, the Ghazipur district management had seized two plots of land, measuring 1.901 hectares and valued at over Rs 6 crore, that used to be bought the use of alleged unlawful profits of Mukhtar Ansari, in step with police.
In July, the Uttar Pradesh Police had connected Afzal Ansari’s belongings value Rs 14.90 crore beneath the Gangster Act.
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Abbas Ansari, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Birthday party MLA from Mau and son of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, in a cash laundering case, officers mentioned on Saturday.
Abbas Ansari, 30, used to be arrested after an extended wondering consultation on the federal company’s place of work in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, they mentioned.
He has been arrested within the cash laundering case being investigated towards his father and circle of relatives, they mentioned. Ultimate month, the ED had connected seven immovable belongings of Mukhtar Ansari value Rs 1.48 crore (registry worth).
Mukhtar Ansari, a five-time former MLA, is these days lodged in prison in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda. The 59-year-old used to be puzzled through the ED on this case closing 12 months.
The company had additionally raided the legitimate place of abode of his elder brother and BSP MP Afzal Ansari in Delhi and a few places in Ghazipur, Mohammadabad (in Ghazipur district), Mau and Lucknow in August.
The cash laundering case towards Mukhtar Ansari stems from a couple of FIRs registered through the Uttar Pradesh Police excluding two lodged towards an organization known as Vikas Buildings (a partnership company) that used to be run through his spouse, two brothers-in-law and others.
Mukhtar Ansari is beneath the ED scanner in reference to no less than 49 prison circumstances towards him together with the ones on fees of land grabbing, homicide and extortion.
He’s going through trial in numerous circumstances, together with an try to homicide and homicide, in Uttar Pradesh.
In August, the Ghazipur district management had seized two plots of land, measuring 1.901 hectares and valued at over Rs 6 crore, that used to be bought the use of alleged unlawful profits of Mukhtar Ansari, in step with police.
In July, the Uttar Pradesh Police had connected Afzal Ansari’s belongings value Rs 14.90 crore beneath the Gangster Act.