The Enforcement Directorate (ED) submitted a complaint (a chargesheet) in a special court against Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Nawab Malik in a money laundering case of 1999 linking him to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
The 5000-page complaint was filed before the Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act Court on Thursday. The five-time member of Legislative Assembly was arrested on February 23 after being questioned by ED for seven hours and has been lodged at Arthur Road Jail since March 7.
The central agency had initiated the investigation against underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and other on the basis of a FIR registered by the National Investigation Agency on February 3, 2022 under criminal conspiracy and Sections 17 (punishment of raising funds for terrorist act), 18 (punishment for conspiracy), 20 (punishment for being member of terrorist gang or organisation), 21 (punishment for holding proceeds of crime), 38 (offences relating to membership of a terrorist organisation) and 40 (offences of raising fund for a terrorist organisation) of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. The FIR named Dawood Ibrahim, Haji Anees, Chhota Shakeel, Javed Chikna and Tiger Menon. It mentions that Mr. Ibrahim left India and started controlling his criminal activities in India through his sister Haseena Parkar and others
