Guwahati: Maharashtra Minister and the leader of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Nawab Malik has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for allegedly being involved in money laundering case in underworld operations on Wednesday.
Malik stated after being arrested that “Will win, won’t bend down.” He remarked this as he walked out of the Mumbai ED office.
Malik was arrested and transferred to the ED office this morning in connection with a money laundering investigation.
Malik was summoned to the central investigation agency’s headquarters to provide a statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Malik was apprehended days after the central investigation agency filed a new case and conducted searches in Mumbai in connection with underworld operations.
Raids has been carried out by ED at around 10 locations, including those associated to Dawood Ibrahim’s late sister Haseena Parkar, brother Iqbal Kaskar, and Salim Qureshi alias Salim Fruit, mobster Chhota Shakeel’s brother-in-law.
Maharashtra Congress and NCP leaders claimed that state minister Malik’s arrest by the ED was an act of “revenge”.
Shiv Sena leader Priyanka Chaturvedi said that Malik’s arrest is an act of vendetta politics by the BJP government at the Centre.
It may be mentioned that after Anil Deshmukh, Nawab Malik is the second Maharashtra minister and NCP leader to be detained by the ED.