Mumbai: The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) registered a money laundering case against Gangster Fugitive Dawood Ibrahim and close the Associates and raided nine places in Mumbai and the location in Thane, including the house of the late Sister Haseena Parkar in Nagada on Tuesday.
Dawood is believed to be in Pakistan under the control of the State Intelligence Agency, ISI.
It was lowned that Ed would investigate the property agreement from senior politicians with one of the imprisoned Dawood maids punished in the case of the 1993 Mumbai bomb.
Ed had held the key Dawood Associate Chhota Shakeel’s Brother-in-law Salim Qureshi aka Salim fruit to be questioned.
The question continues until the last report entered.
Ed was also approaching a court looking for detainees of the Dawood brothers Iqbal Kaskar to interrogate it on specific prospects in this case.
Iqbal Kaskar was arrested by Thane police in 2017 in a case of extortion; He was in prison.
Recently, Ed has collected documents of extortion cases registered by police Thane against Iqbal Kaskar and his brother Anees Ibrahim and another case listed by the National Investigation Agency against Dawood gang for terror acts in India.
Based on these two cases, Ed has registered money laundering cases against Dawood, his brothers, close relatives and helpers.
The source said Ed looked into the frequency visits of Salim fruit abroad, including to Pakistan through illegal channels, and close relations with Dawood gang.
They have accumulated the details of its properties and their bank accounts.
Alleged that Salim fruit was executing several works in the city in instructions from Dawood and Shakeel.
Ed was examining the trail of money produced by Dawood helpers and family members through settlements, extortion, narcotics trade and building rehabilitation projects.
Ed suspects that the money produced through this activity has been directed through the hawala channel and is used to spread terrorism, promoting anti-national activities and creating cracks between religious groups in India.
Recently, Nia has registered a case against Dawood and her close colleagues with prevention of prevention of legal activities.
Ed and Nia are investigating this case in coordination.
The source said ED’s focus would be a network of Hawala Gang Dawood.
On Tuesday, the Ed team landed at the address of Iqbal Kaskar in Bhendi Bazaar along with CRPF personnel.
But they found the building emptied for demolition.
The other ED team was at the House of Haseena Parkar where Iqbal remained until his arrest in 2017.
ED officials searched home and gathered evidence to be examined.
ED officials looking for House of Salim Fruit around him, asked him to accompany them to be questioned in their office at the Ballard Estate.
In 2016, Salim was captured in a case of extortion and before he was in the news to threaten the builder on behalf of the Chhota Shakeel for extortion.