Mumbai: Nawab Malik, Maharashtra Minister and NCP leader, arrested in connection with money laundering case after questioning today. In visuals from outside the ED office, Malik can be seen defiantly waving his fist in the air.
Waving his fist in the air, to the waiting reporters, Nawab Malik says that he won’t bow down, “We will fight and win, and expose everyone,” he said while stepping down from the agency. He was then taken by ED officials in a vehicle for a medical check-up.
As per NDTV sources, Malik was being questioned over alleged transactions with gangster Dawood’s associates and land deals with them. He was evasive and didn’t cooperate with the investigation, the ED said.
Recently many raids were carried out by ED, and also took custody of Dawood Ibrahim’s brother Iqbal Kaskar in the same case. According to sources, some evidence related to property purchased by Nawab Malik during the investigation has surfaced.
Nawab Malik was taken to Enforcement Directorate this morning for questioning. He was being summoned by the ED in connection with a money laundering case linked to the Mumbai underworld, officials told news agency PTI.
He was questioned for eight hours.
During Malik was being questioned, NCP workers were protesting near party’s headquarters located close to the ED office in south Mumbai. They were sloganeering against the BJP-led central government and the probe agency. “The protest is against the unjust questioning of Nawab Malik as he was exposing the BJP+NCB+CBI+ED nexus on a daily basis. We will not be cowed down. NCP will keep exposing BJP and all central agencies,” party spokesperson Sanjay Tatkare said.
For slamming the NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede, Malik had made it to headlines. He had accused him of several service-related wrongdoings after the anti-drugs officer led the raid on a cruise ship on Mumbai’s shore in October last year and arrested 20 people including superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan.
Malik’s son-in-law Sameer Khan was also arrested in a drugs case by the NCB’s Mumbai unit last year.
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