The assets worth ₹203 cr. belong to drug dealer’s family members
The Enforcement Directorate has attached 15 Dubai-based properties worth ₹203 crore in connection with a money-laundering case against drug dealer Iqbal Mirchi, who died in the United Kingdom in 2013, and others. The agency had earlier attached properties valued ₹573 crore last December.
The assets belonging to Iqbal Mirchi’s family members include a hotel named Midwest Hotel Apartment and 14 other commercial and residential properties. The ED had registered the case in September last year.
“Kapil Wadhawan, Dheeraj Wadhawan and Humayun Merchant were arrested in the case. A prosecution complaint was also filed on December 9, 2019…open-ended non-bailable warrants have been issued against Iqbal Mirchi’s sons, Asif and Junaid, and his wife Hajra Memon,” said an ED official.
The properties attached in…