Lagatar24 Desk
Mumbai, April 13: Under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) provisionally attached properties belonging to Maharastra Minister Nawab Malik on Wednesday.
In a case against the gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his underworld group, the ED has provisionally attached assets belonging to Malik’s family members, Solidus Investments, and Malik Infrastructure under the anti-money laundering law.
The Goawala compound and a commercial unit in Mumbai’s suburban Kurla (West), a 147.79-acre agricultural property in Maharashtra’s Osmanabad district, three flats in Kurla (West), and two residential flats in Bandra are among the properties connected (West).
Notably, the ED detained Nawab Malik, the head of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Maharashtra government’s Minority Affairs Minister, on February 23 in a money laundering case. The ED has charged the NCP leader with being a part of a criminal conspiracy to usurp a property in Mumbai’s Kurla district that is currently valued at Rs 300 crore and rightly belongs to Munira Plumber.
Meanwhile, The Supreme Court agreed today to consider scheduling a hearing for Malik’s appeal in this money laundering case, in which he is seeking immediate release from prison.
