By means of PTI
MUMBAI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday arrested Iqbal Kaskar, the jailed brother of 1993 Mumbai blasts mastermind Dawood Ibrahim, as a part of a probe right into a not too long ago registered cash laundering case in opposition to him, officers mentioned.
Kaskar, already lodged in Thane prison in reference to more than one circumstances of alleged extortion, was once taken into custody within the contemporary case. He’s going to be produced prior to a different Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) court docket that had issued a manufacturing warrant in opposition to him on February 16, the officers mentioned.
The federal probe company is predicted to hunt his custody for wondering within the newly registered case in opposition to him, fugitive gangster Ibrahim and others related to the Mumbai underworld. The ED’s transfer comes following the registration of the brand new case and its February 15 raids in Mumbai into the operations of the underworld, related alleged unlawful assets offers and hawala transactions.
The searches had been performed at 10 places, together with premises related to Ibrahim’s overdue sister Haseena Parkar, Kaskar and Salim Qureshi alias Salim Fruit, a brother-in-law of gangster Chhota Shakeel. Qureshi was once additionally wondered by means of the ED after the raids.
The ED case is according to an FIR filed not too long ago by means of the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) in opposition to Ibrahim and others aside from its unbiased intelligence. The NIA had filed its prison criticism underneath sections of the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
The company is known to have recovered paperwork comparable to those alleged unlawful assets offers with hyperlinks to Indian businessmen running right here and in Dubai all over the process the investigation and likewise after the raids.
Some political hyperlinks to those alleged shady offers also are underneath the scanner of the company.