The special prevention of money laundering act court remanded gangster Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar to Enforcement Directorate's custody for seven days.
The central agency took him into custody from Taloja Central Jail in a money laundering case. ED's custody 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.
After he left India, he started controlling his criminal activities in India through close associates like Haji Anees alias Anees Ibrahim Shaikh, Shakeel, Shaikh alias Chhota Shakeel, Javed Patel alias Javed Chikhna, Tiger Memon, Iqbal Mirchi and Haseena Parkar.
ED's counsel Hiten Venegavkar argued, in order to conduct effective investigation against the Dawood gang as a whole, ED is doing money laundering investigation by considering the facts mentioned in the FIR by Thane police station and NIA.
As per ED under PMLA it is revealed that Kaskar after deported to India started extorting money from various builders/celebrities by pressurizing them with the help of his brother's image as a global terrorist. He used his henchmen for this act and collected money on behalf of Mr. Dawood. ED has evidence in its possession that Kaskar was regularly receiving substantial proceeds of crime from Dawood.
