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Jailed NCP leader Nawab Malik applies for bail on medical grounds
The central agency claimed Nawab Malik had usurped a prime property at Kurla – Goawala Compound, spread over three acres and valued at about ₹300 crore -- originally owned by one Munira Plumber through Solidus Investments, with the active connivance of Haseena Parkar, the late sister of Dawood Ibrahim.
Mumbai: Maharashtra minorities development minister Nawab Malik on Thursday applied to the special PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002) court for bail on medical grounds.
The court has posted the 62-year-old NCP leader’s plea for hearing on May 2.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Malik on February 23 in connection with a money laundering case registered against fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and some of his close aides. The 62-year-old NCP leader is presently in judicial custody and lodged in Arthur Road jail.
The ED had initiated a money laundering probe against Dawood Ibrahim and some of his close associates, on the basis of an FIR registered by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on February 3, 2022 in connection with the purported terrorist activities and drug trafficking undertaken by the gang.
The central agency claimed Nawab Malik had usurped a prime property at Kurla – Goawala Compound, spread over three acres and valued at about ₹300 crore in the current market price -- originally owned by one Munira Plumber through Solidus Investments, with the active connivance of Haseena Parkar, the late sister of Dawood Ibrahim.
“For usurping this property, Haseena Parkar and Nawab Malik connived together and executed several legal documents to put a façade of genuinity for this criminal act,” the ED said in a release. “These persons illegally transferred the land belonging to Munira Plumber and her mother Mariyam Goawala by getting it registered on the strength of fake/forged documents in the name of Solidus Investments Private Limited,” the agency added.
The agency has claimed that the rent amount of Rs. 11.70 crore collected by Solidus Investments and Malik Infrastructure from tenants on this property was also proceeds of crime, as contemplated under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.
Malik’s family has rubbished the allegations and claimed that a family firm had purchased Goawala Compound from Munira Plumber’s power of attorney holder Mohd Salim Ishaq Patel, a purported frontman of Haseena Parkar and the transaction was backed by valid documents.
