ED books Dawood’s brother under PMLA

New Delhi/Mumbai: The ED has registered a money laundering case against fugitive terrorist Dawood Ibrahim’s brother Iqbal Kaskar and others in connection with alleged extortion of a leading builder in Maharashtra, agency sources said on Tuesday.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday registered a case against Iqbal Kaskar, brother of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim, and two of his associates for allegedly laundering extortion money abroad, part of which was rerouted to India as donation to controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik’s Islamic Research Foundation (IRF). Kaskar and his associates are currently in the custody of Thane police.

Alleged revelation by Kaskar during interrogation by Intelligence Bureau (IB) include money from Pakistan — stated to be from Dawood — making its way as donations to Naik’s IRF.

“Link between the money sent out of India and donations to IRF will also be probed by us. We have information of several benami properties of Kaskar. Dawood’s link with this is being looked into hence we have mentioned others in our case,” said a senior ED officer, requesting anonymity.

The Enforcement Case Information Report was registered against Kaskar, Asrarali Sayyad and Mumtaz Shaikh, who were arrested by the Thane crime branch in two separate cases of extortion on September 18.