Nawab Malik arrested by ED in money laundering case
The HinduThe Nationalist Congress Party leader Nawab Malik was arrested on Wednesday by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case. The case involves alleged land and money transactions between the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and the minister for minority development and aukaf of Maharashtra. On February 18, a special court remanded Dawood's brother Iqbal Kaskar to ED custody for seven days in the same case. The ED's case is based on a FIR filed by the National Investigation Agency on February 3 this year against Dawood who has been designated as a 'Global Terrorist' by the United Nation also listed under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act for being involved in terrorist activities, smuggling, narco terrorism, underworld criminal syndicate, money laundering, unauthorised possession/acquisition of assets for raising terror funds and is working in collaboration with international terrorist organisation including Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Al Qaeda.