ED arrests Dawood's brother under PMLA

New Delhi, February 18

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today arrested Dawood Ibrahim’s jailed brother Iqbal Kaskar under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) as part of its probe in cases related to alleged underworld deals, agency officials said.

They said Kaskar, already lodged in the Thane jail in connection with a number of alleged extortion cases, was taken into custody in the fresh PMLA case. He is going to be produced before a special PMLA court that had issued a production warrant against him on February 16.

The officials said the ED would seek Kaskar’s custody for questioning in the newly registered case against him, his brother Dawood and others linked to the Mumbai underworld. The ED’s move comes following the registration of the new case and its February 15 raids in Mumbai into the operations of the underworld, linked alleged illegal property deals and hawala transactions. —