ED attaches Rs 50 lakh flat of Iqbal Kaskar’s aide

MUMBAI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached a flat in Thane worth around Rs 50 lakh that belonged to Iqbal Kaskar’s close associate

Mumtaz Ezaz Shaikh

in a money laundering case. The ED had registered the money laundering case against Pakistan based gangster Dawood Ibrahim, his family members and others. In the case, earlier the ED had arrested NCP minister

Nawab Malik

.

The money laundering case based two different cases registered against Dawood gang. In one of the case, the Thane police had registered an extortion FIR lagainst Iqbal Kaskar (brother of Dawood Ibrahim),

Mumtaz Sheikh

and Israr Ali Jamil Saiyad along with others in 2018.

A builder

Suresh Mehta

, was running construction business along with his partner through the name of their company Darshan enterprises.

Kaskar along with other two accused managed to extort a flat from Mehta in Thane after threatening him. The flat was taken on the name of

Mumtaz Shaikh

. They also forced

Mehta

, to issue four cheques of Rs 10 lakh ( collectively) on their names. The accused deposited the cheques in accounts that they had opened only for depositing the extorted cheques. Afterward they withdrew the cash from their bank accounts. The ED said that those accounts were operated only for withdrawing the cash amount of Rs 10 lakhs.

The ED also found that the accused extorted cash amounts from Suresh Mehta. The ED had arrested Iqbal Kaskar on February 2022 in the case. Kaskar is in jail custody.

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