ED submits 5000-page charge-sheet against Malik in property case linked to Dawood
Mumbai Apr 21 PTI The Enforcement Directorate ED on Thursday submitted a charge-sheet in a court here against Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik in an alleged money laundering case linked to fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim nearly two months after arresting him in the matterMalik 62 a senior Nationalist Congress Party NCP leader was arrested by the ED on February 23 in the case and is currently in jail under judicial custodyThe over-5000-page charge-sheet was submitted in the courts registry ED lawyers saidThe special court for Prevention of Money Laundering Act PMLA cases will take cognizance of the charge-sheet after verification of the documents they saidThe EDs case is based on an FIR filed recently by the National Investigation Agency NIA against Ibrahim a designated global terrorist and key 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts accused and his aides under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act UAPAEarlier during remand hearings the central financial investigation agency had told the court Malik was the key conspirator and beneficiary of the entire charadeIn lieu of getting control of illegal occupation of this property he funded a prominent member of D-Gang Dawood gang the ED had saidIt has claimed that for usurping this property members of the D-Gang and Nawab Malik connived together and executed several legal documents to put a facade of genuinity over this criminal actDuring his custodial interrogation previously arrested accused Iqbal Kaskar brother of Dawood Ibrahim revealed certain facts about his sister Haseena Parker and her involvement in usurping high-valued properties of innocent citizens in Mumbai by using the clout of D-Gang it had saidIn course of the investigation it was revealed one such victim of the D-Gang was one Munira Plumber the agency had saidPlumbers prime property having present market value of Rs 300 crore was usurped by Malik through Solidus Investments a company owned by the ministers family with active connivance of members of the D-Gang including Haseena Parkar the ED had told the courtPlumber in her statement to the ED has said she had not sold this property to Malik the agency saidIt is also apparent that Malik is guilty of the offence of money laundering as defined under provisions of the PMLA the probe agency has saidMalik who has denied all charges levelled against him has moved the Supreme Court against an order of the Bombay High Court which had rejected his interim application seeking immediate release from jail PTI AVI KRK RSY RSY
Mumbai Apr 21 PTI The Enforcement Directorate ED on Thursday submitted a charge-sheet in a court here against Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik in an alleged money laundering case linked to fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim nearly two months after arresting him in the matterMalik 62 a senior Nationalist Congress Party NCP leader was arrested by the ED on February 23 in the case and is currently in jail under judicial custodyThe over-5000-page charge-sheet was submitted in the courts registry ED lawyers saidThe special court for Prevention of Money Laundering Act PMLA cases will take cognizance of the charge-sheet after verification of the documents they saidThe EDs case is based on an FIR filed recently by the National Investigation Agency NIA against Ibrahim a designated global terrorist and key 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts accused and his aides under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act UAPAEarlier during remand hearings the central financial investigation agency had told the court Malik was the key conspirator and beneficiary of the entire charadeIn lieu of getting control of illegal occupation of this property he funded a prominent member of D-Gang Dawood gang the ED had saidIt has claimed that for usurping this property members of the D-Gang and Nawab Malik connived together and executed several legal documents to put a facade of genuinity over this criminal actDuring his custodial interrogation previously arrested accused Iqbal Kaskar brother of Dawood Ibrahim revealed certain facts about his sister Haseena Parker and her involvement in usurping high-valued properties of innocent citizens in Mumbai by using the clout of D-Gang it had saidIn course of the investigation it was revealed one such victim of the D-Gang was one Munira Plumber the agency had saidPlumbers prime property having present market value of Rs 300 crore was usurped by Malik through Solidus Investments a company owned by the ministers family with active connivance of members of the D-Gang including Haseena Parkar the ED had told the courtPlumber in her statement to the ED has said she had not sold this property to Malik the agency saidIt is also apparent that Malik is guilty of the offence of money laundering as defined under provisions of the PMLA the probe agency has saidMalik who has denied all charges levelled against him has moved the Supreme Court against an order of the Bombay High Court which had rejected his interim application seeking immediate release from jail PTI AVI KRK RSY RSY
