Mumbai: ED moves court seeking to declare Iqbal Mirchi’s family as fugitive economic offenders

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday informed that the central agency has moved an application before the designated court under the Fugitive Economic Offenders (FEO) Act, 2018 to declare Junaid Memon, Asif Memon and Hajra Memon as fugitive economic offenders.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday informed that the central agency has moved an application before the designated court under the Fugitive Economic Offenders (FEO) Act, 2018 to declare Junaid Memon, Asif Memon and Hajra Memon as fugitive economic offenders. Junaid and Asif are sons of Iqbal Mirchi, an aide of gangster Dawood Ibrahim, while Hajra is Mirchi’s wife

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ED officials told HT that the agency has also requested the court to issue order directing the authority concerned to confiscate the properties belonging to these three under FEO Act.

Open ended non-bailable warrants have already been issued against all three on the basis of the prosecution complaint filed on December 9, 2019 by ED before the special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court.

The anti-money laundering agency had initiated money laundering probe against Mirchi and his family on September 26, 2019.

While probing the matter, ED has, in the past, provisionally attached assets linked to the Mirchi family to the tune of approximately ₹798 crore in India and abroad under the provisions of PMLA.

ED officials have so far arrested five accused persons including Dewan Housing Finance Corporation’s (DHFL) Kapil Wadhawan, Dheeraj Wadhawan and Humayun Merchant in the case.