Mirchi Files: After Patel’s Submission of Deal, ED to Attach Ceejay House

Mumbai/New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) probing into the alleged property deals of the fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar close aide late Iqbal Mirchi with former Union Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Praful Patel, is all set to attach the controversial 15 storey Ceejay House property. The revelation came after the ED, which questioned the former Minister for over 12 hours in connection with the money laundering case involving the family members of Mirchi on Friday.

A senior ED official related to the probe told: “During questioning, Patel accepted that he made deals with the family members of Mirchi.” The official said that in his statement to the agency, the NCP leader said that he was not aware that Iqbal Memon aka Iqbal Mirchi was the “same man”. “And thus he was completely in dark, who Hajra Memon was when the deal between the Millenium Developers was signed with Memon,” the official said.

The official also added that Patel in his statement to the financial probe agency has said that the deal between the Millenium Developers, controlled by him and his wife Varsha was finalized by a relative, who died a few years ago. The official said that in the coming days the ED will attach the Ceejay House under the PMLA 2002, as the agency believes that the Mirchi family used the amount of the proceeds of the crime to get the property. (IANS)

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