North India Statesman
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Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized the flat in Neopolis Tower in Thane of Iqbal Kaskar, brother of underworld gangster Dawood Ibrahim. It is alleged that Iqbal grabbed the flat as ransom. A case was registered against Ibrahim in the Anti-Extortion Cell of Thane Police in 2017 in connection with this extortion. Later ED also investigated money laundering in this case.
The matter was earlier taken up provisionally from March 2022. In 2017, a case of extortion was registered in Thane. The case was investigated by the Anti Extortion Cell. Later the police started investigation from the angle of money laundering.
Police investigation revealed that Kaskar, along with his associates Mumtaz Sheikh and Israr Ali Jamil, had threatened a builder named Suresh Mehta. The builder was forced to register the property in the name of Mumtaz Shaikh. The price of this property in 2022 will be around Rs. It was estimated at Rs 75 lakh. The flat was forcibly transferred to Sheikh’s name. Further through forged cheques, Rs. A transaction of Rs 10 lakh was also shown.
The ED investigation found that financial transactions were carried out to give the appearance of extortion. In February 2022, the ED questioned Kaskar in connection with the operations of the Dawood gang in Mumbai and elsewhere. Later, a charge sheet was filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). This included charges under the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MACOCA) and various sections of the Indian Penal Code.
Iqbal Kaskar, who returned to India after being deported from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2003, started criminal activities in India in the name of Dawood Ibrahim. Dawood, who lives in Karachi, is believed to have links with international terrorist groups and Gupta agencies.
