The Enforcement Directorate submitted a rather lengthy remand copy before the special court in Mumbai under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) while seeking a 14-day remand of Maharashtra cabinet minister Nawab Malik.
Nawab Malik has been accused of dealing with the underworld to usurp a prime property in Mumbai’s suburban Kurla. The remand copy, filed by Investigating Officer Niraj Kumar, an Assistant Director with the Enforcement Directorate, stated that the complainant – Munira Plumber – got to know from media reports that her three acre ancestral property had been usurped by Nawab Malik.
The remand copy stated that during the course of the investigation nine searches were conducted on the premises belonging to associates of Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Shakeel and various incriminating materials were seized.
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Several statements have also been recorded under the PMLA during the course of the investigation.
The statement of Salim Ahmad Khaleel Ahmed aka Salim Patel aka Salim Fruit was also recorded. In a statement, he said that he is the brother-in-law of Chhota Shakeel, who used to run an extortion racket through his henchmen. Some of them were Faheem Machmach, Majid Bharuchi, and Nasir Kalia.
Chhota Shakeel operates from Pakistan and works with Dawood Ibrahim. Saleem Fruit said that he had visited Chhota Shakeel’s residence in Pakistan 34 times. In 2006, Salim Fruit was deported by the United Arab Emirates to India, where he was arrested. He stayed in jail until 2010.
Apart from Salim Fruit, ED had recorded the statements of Saud Yusuf Tungekar, brother-in-law of Dawood Ibrahim, along with Dawood’s younger brother Iqbal Kaskar’s associate Khalid Usman Shaikh and Dawood’s nephew Alishan Parkar.
They informed the ED about Salim Patel, the driver of Haseena Parkar, Dawood’s sister, who used to run the extortion racket on his behalf. They would usurp properties and extort money from people in the name of Dawood Ibrahim, the remand copy said.
Alishan also told the ED that Saleem Patel used to sit in an office and handle the affairs of the Goa Walla compound. Later, his mother, Haseena Parkar, sold the portion controlled by her to Nawab Malik. He also was not aware of the consideration paid by Nawab Malik to his mother and Salim Patel.
The victim, Munira Plumber, came forward and gave a statement to the ED that she owns a plot of about six acres known as Goa Walla compound in Mumbai’s Kurla. This was her ancestral property and was divided between her and her mother as per Islamic law.
After her mother’s death in 2015, she became the sole owner of the entire property. Plumber told the ED that Patel was a tenant of two sheds on her property. She said that she had no idea when the property was transferred to Nawab Malik’s company and that she had never met Malik.
She also said that Salim Patel came to her and introduced himself as a social worker. He assured her that he would remove all encroachers who had illegally occupied the land and clear all disputes.
When she gave the Power of Attorney to Salim Patel to remove the encroachers, there was no agreement to sell the property.
Plumber said she came to know about her property being sold through the media.
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It was then found that the property was sold to Nawab Malik through one of his companies and in his media byte he claimed that Plumber had approached him for the sale of the property. Countering Malik’s claims, Plumber said she had never approached the minister or his family members about the sale of the property.Neither was she contacted by Malik, she said, adding that she was unaware that her property had been illegally sold to him and that she had not received any consideration for this property.
According to Plumber, she had, in fact, given Rs 5,00,00 to Saleem Patel to remove those who had occupied the property illegally and to clear all disputes and cancel illegal titles of tenants. She had never authorized Salim Patel to sell the property. Patel sold it illegally and handed over the property to a third party. Later, she came to know that Salim Patel was related to the underworld and therefore, she never registered an FIR, worried about threats to her life.
Patel had sold her property, including that of her mother’s, even though the power of attorney did not have her mother’s signature. Munira Plumbar also submitted a copy of the complaint she had filed before the small causes court on September 12, 1989 about threats from Nawab Malik for usurping the shops on her property.
Investigation has revealed the name of Sardar Shah Wali Khan, a convict in the 1993 bomb blasts who is serving a life sentence in Aurangabad jail. The ED recorded Khan’s statement where he said that he was in touch with Haseena Parkar and Tiger Memon through one Javed Chikna. Khan has also corroborated how Nawab Malik threatened the owners since he had an interest in the property in Kurla which incidentally falls within the jurisdiction of this constituency.
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