NEW DELHI: It may be noted that ED had registered a case of money laundering against underworld don and fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and others, on the basis of FIR registered by National Investigation Agency (NIA) on February 3 this year, under section 120 B of IPC and several sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
According to ED, in the aforementioned FIR, Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, Haji Anees aka Anees Ibrahim Shaikh, Shakeel Shaikh aka Chhota Shakeel, Javed Patel aka Javed Chikna, Ibrahim Mushtaq Abdul Razzaq Memon aka Tiger Memon have been named as accused persons. FIR also stated that Dawood Ibrahim, after he fled India, started controlling his criminal activities in India through his close associates such as Haseena Parkar aka Haseena Aapa and others. Incidentally Haseena Parker was sister of the fugitive Don.
During the course of its investigation in the money laundering case, it was revealed that a prime property of Munira Plumber was usurped by Malik through Solidus Investments Pvt. Ltd., a company owned by his family members and controlled by him, with active connivance of the members of D-Gang including Parkar. For Usurping this property, Parkar and Malik had connived together and executed several legal documents to put a facade of genuinity for this criminal act, the ED official said.
“Investigations further revealed that property belonging to Munira S. Plumber and her mother Mariyambai was illegally taken over by Solidus Investments Private Limited, a company controlled by Malik and Parkar, Sardar Shahvali Khan, Salim Patel. Malik illegally usurped property or proceeds of crime that is a three-acre prime land with building/structure etc. at Goawala Compound, Kurla (West), Mumbai, the official said.
It was found that these persons illegally transferred the land belonging to Plumber and her mother Mariyam Goawala by getting it registered on the strength of fake or forged documents in the name of Solidus Investments Private Limited. “It has now been confirmed that Goawala Compound in Mumbai’s Kurla (West) has thus been fraudulently usurped and is proceeds of crime under PMLA”, the official said.
Malik and his family were the beneficiaries of the rental income upto the tune of Rs 11.70 crore from the properties in two entities controlled by Malik — Solidus Investments Pvt. Ltd. and Malik Infrastructure — is also proceeds of crime, the ED has claimed in its attachment proceedings.