Mumbai: The Enforcement Department (ED) has submitted a lengthy charge sheet of 5,000 pages against Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik before the Special PMLA Court registry on Thursday on an alleged money laundering case, IANS reported.
After scrutinising the documents, the court will take cognisance of the submission- on the 20-year-old land-deal case with mafia links.
The ED had arrested 69-year-old Malik on February 23, after a National Investigation Agency (NIA) registered FIR on fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and others under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. The minister was arrested from his Mumbai home and is continuing in judicial custody for around 60 days.
In the money laundering case, minister Malik allegedly usurped the Goawala Compound in Kurla with the support of the mafia, ED has claimed.
It was barely eight days ago, ED had provisionally attached five properties belonging to Malik and his family in Mumbai as well as other parts of the state.
The attached properties include Goawala Compound, a commercial unit and three flats in Kurla, two apartments in Bandra, and 148 acres of agricultural lands in Osmanabad, among others.
According to ED, Malik, with the help of the mafia, conspired and grabbed the Kurla land belonging to Munira Plumber at a price significantly lower than the actual price. The minister used his company Solidus Investments Pvt. Ltd and forged papers and had help from Dawood's gangsters, ED alleges.