The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is conducting searches at various locations across Mumbai after it emerged that underworld don and Islamic narco-terrorist Dawood Ibrahim is still running a network of money laundering.
An investigation by the ED against Dawood Ibrahim and his aides has revealed that they are still doing money laundering and running extortion in India.
According to the ED, betting remains one of the major sources of income and the operation of the gang has offices in India and the Middle East.
Also, the Dawood gang is involved in hawala channels that are being run from India and all the black money is being pumped outside India to the Middle East.
The gang still has considerable control and interests in real estate projects and Dawood still has members of his gang who are running operations in the country at his behest.
The ED will now question Dawood Ibrahim’s brother Iqbal Kaskar and other gang members as the ED is planning to take Kaskar into custody and question him regarding the operations of his brother’s aides.
However, Kaskar will be taken into custody following court approval of the application filed by the ED because he is presently in judicial custody after being charged under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) for extortion registered against him by the Thane Police Crime Branch in 2017.
The residence of the late Haseena Parker, sister of Dawood Ibrahim was also searched at various locations across Mumbai, and also Salim Fruit who is the brother-in-law of Dawood gang’s top operative, Chota Shakeel was summoned on Wednesday because Salim Fruit had allegedly travelled to Pakistan and runs Dawood’s operations from Bhendi Bazaar.
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