Lagatar24 Desk
Mumbai, May 24: Maharashtra Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik allegedly had long-standing ties with fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s D-company, according to the Enforcement Directorate’s probe against him in connection with a money laundering case.
Before the Special PMLA court in Mumbai, the Enforcement Directorate has filed a prosecution case (chargesheet).
The ED detailed Malik’s alleged connection to the D-company and claimed conspiracy to usurp the Goawala building compound in Kurla West in 1996 in the prosecution case.
On Monday, Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials in Mumbai questioned Dawood Ibrahim’s nephew Alishah Parkar about gangs operating in Mumbai and other parts of the country. Notably Haseena Parkar, Dawood’s sister, died of a heart attack in 2014, and Alishah is her son.
During the investigation of the PMLA case against Malik, Dawood Ibrahim’s nephew Alishah Parkar gave a statement to the ED under Section 50 of the PMLA Act. Alishah stated in the statement that his mother was involved in financial transactions with Dawood Ibrahim for a long period before her death. Salim Patel, one of his mother’s associates, was also cited. Salim Patel was an onion seller who also dealt in real estate alongside his mother.
Haseena Parkar and Salim Patel had settled the conflict in Goawala Building and taken over part of the compound by constructing an office there, according to Alishah.
Parkar then sold a section of the Goawala Building that Alishah held to Nawab Malik, according to Alishah. According to the chargesheet, he was unaware of the money paid by Nawab Malik to his mother and Patel.
On Friday, a special court accepted the Enforcement Directorate’s chargesheet against Nawab Malik, the leader of the Nationalist Congress Party, and said there is prima facie evidence that Malik was directly and knowingly involved in money laundering and criminal conspiracy with others to usurp the Goawala compound in Kurla. A process has been issued against him and his co-accused in the 1993 bombing case, Sardar Shahwali Khan, who is also listed in the case.
