ED SEEKS DETAILS OF MIRCHI’S AIDE FROM HONG KONG

MUMBAI: The Enforcement Directorate has approached the Hong Kong authorities, seeking details of the conviction of late gangster Iqbal Mirchi’s close aide Humayun Merchant in a cocaine smuggling case in which his wife too was arrested.

Merchant was arrested in 2019 by the ED in a money-laundering case. The agency claimed Merchant had helped Mirchi acquire properties in Worli way back in 1986 using money earned through crimes like smuggling, drug trafficking and extortion.