The ED on Wednesday questioned state Minority Affairs Minister and NCP’s chief spokesperson Malik in a cash laundering probe linked to the actions of the Mumbai underworld, fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his aides, officers stated.
The 62-year-old NCP chief is said to have arrived on the ED’s workplace in south Mumbai’s Ballard Property space round 8 am and the company is recording his assertion underneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA), they added.
NCP spokesperson Clyde Crasto alleged that the motion in opposition to Malik was nothing however “strain ways” to silence his voice.
“He was exposing the wrongdoings of some individuals as a Chief Spokesperson of a political occasion. Voices of fact can’t be silenced,” Crasto tweeted.
Speaking to reporters in Solapur, Maharashtra NCP president and state minister Jayant Patil stated this was one other occasion of “misuse of energy”.
“The ED reached his (Malik’s) residence at 6 am with out issuing any discover. The ED had introduced with it its personal police. Some individuals could also be intentionally attempting to hassle him. The ED taking away a state minister for probe with none prior data is violation of every little thing,” he claimed.
Patil stated he was not conscious by which connection Malik is being probed and that it appeared anger is being “intentionally” expressed on the minister.
Nonetheless, senior BJP chief and former state finance minister Sudhir Mungantiwar informed reporters that it’s too early to name the ED’s inquiry as “vendetta politics” when the small print of the motion aren’t but out.
“What ought to we name the way in which Union minister Narayan Rane was arrested a number of months again. BJP MLA Nitesh Rane can be being hounded by the state authorities. Malik is just not a state-level chief of the NCP. If he has achieved one thing suspicious, then it ought to be probed. There shouldn’t be any rush to stamp it as vendetta politics,” Mungantiwar stated.
Maharashtra BJP vice chairman Chitra Wagh stated a number of months again, severe allegations have been levelled by former state CM Devendra Fadnavis in opposition to Malik in reference to a suspicious land deal.
“It ought to be probed completely and the ED officers ought to be allowed to finish their investigation,” she stated.
The ED’s transfer in opposition to Malik comes after registration of a brand new case and raids performed by it on February 15 in Mumbai in reference to the operations of the underworld, linked alleged unlawful property offers and hawala transactions.
