Rs 203-Crore Worth Dubai Assets Of Iqbal Mirchi’s Family Attached
Officers mentioned those belongings had been transferred to Mirchi circle of relatives by way of an organization owned by way of Wadhawan brothers.
New Delhi:
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday mentioned it has hooked up Dubai-based belongings value over Rs 203 crore of overdue gangster Iqbal Mirchi’s circle of relatives in reference to a cash laundering case.
The hooked up belongings come with 15 industrial and home houses belonging to the “members of the family” of Mirchi. They come with a lodge referred to as Midwest Resort Rental, the ED mentioned.
They’re valued at Rs 203.27 crore and feature been provisionally hooked up below the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA), the central probe company mentioned in a remark.
Officers mentioned those belongings had been transferred to the Mirchi circle of relatives by way of a Dubai-based corporate owned by way of the Wadhawan brothers, Kapil Wadhawan and Dheeraj Wadhawan.
The Wadhawan’s are the promoters of the Dewan Housing Finance Restricted (DHFL). They had been arrested by way of the ED in any other cash laundering case connected to allegedly doubtful loans given by way of Sure Financial institution.
Kapil Wadhawan used to be additionally arrested by way of the company in reference to the Mirchi PMLA case however he later acquired bail.
With this motion, the overall attachment on this case by way of the ED stands at Rs 776 crore. Two an identical attachment orders had been issued by way of the ED in December final 12 months.
Mirchi, who died in 2013 in London, used to be imagined to be the right-hand guy of worldwide terrorist Dawood Ibrahim in drug trafficking and extortion crimes.
“He (Mirchi) used to be a world medication broker and smuggler who had accumulated massive wealth and purchased more than a few immovable houses and companies around the globe,” the ED had mentioned previous.
The company alleged Mirchi “not directly owned more than a few houses in and round Mumbai”.
It has filed a prison case in opposition to Mirchi, his circle of relatives and others to probe the cash laundering fees for alleged unlawful dealings within the acquire and sale of high-priced actual property belongings in Mumbai.
This PMLA case is in line with a couple of FIRs lodged by way of the Mumbai police.
The company had filed a price sheet on this case prior to a Mumbai courtroom in December and the courtroom had due to this fact issued open-ended non-bailable warrants in opposition to Mirchi’s sons Asif Memon and Junaid Memon and his spouse Hajra Memon.
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