By PTI
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Abbas Ansari, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party MLA from Mau and son of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, in a cash laundering case, officers stated on Saturday.
Abbas Ansari, 30, was arrested after a protracted questioning session on the federal company’s workplace in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, they stated.
He has been arrested within the cash laundering case being investigated in opposition to his father and household, they stated. Last month, the ED had hooked up seven immovable property of Mukhtar Ansari value Rs 1.48 crore (registry worth).
Mukhtar Ansari, a five-time former MLA, is at present lodged in jail in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda. The 59-year-old was questioned by the ED on this case final yr.
The company had additionally raided the official residence of his elder brother and BSP MP Afzal Ansari in Delhi and a few areas in Ghazipur, Mohammadabad (in Ghazipur district), Mau and Lucknow in August.
The cash laundering case in opposition to Mukhtar Ansari stems from a number of FIRs registered by the Uttar Pradesh Police aside from two lodged in opposition to an organization known as Vikas Constructions (a partnership agency) that was run by his spouse, two brothers-in-law and others.
Mukhtar Ansari is underneath the ED scanner in reference to at the least 49 legal circumstances in opposition to him together with these on prices of land grabbing, homicide and extortion.
He is dealing with trial in a number of circumstances, together with an try to homicide and homicide, in Uttar Pradesh.
In August, the Ghazipur district administration had seized two plots of land, measuring 1.901 hectares and valued at over Rs 6 crore, that was bought utilizing alleged unlawful earnings of Mukhtar Ansari, in accordance with police.
In July, the Uttar Pradesh Police had hooked up Afzal Ansari’s property value Rs 14.90 crore underneath the Gangster Act.
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Abbas Ansari, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party MLA from Mau and son of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, in a cash laundering case, officers stated on Saturday.
Abbas Ansari, 30, was arrested after a protracted questioning session on the federal company’s workplace in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, they stated.
He has been arrested within the cash laundering case being investigated in opposition to his father and household, they stated. Last month, the ED had hooked up seven immovable property of Mukhtar Ansari value Rs 1.48 crore (registry worth).
Mukhtar Ansari, a five-time former MLA, is at present lodged in jail in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda. The 59-year-old was questioned by the ED on this case final yr.
The company had additionally raided the official residence of his elder brother and BSP MP Afzal Ansari in Delhi and a few areas in Ghazipur, Mohammadabad (in Ghazipur district), Mau and Lucknow in August.
The cash laundering case in opposition to Mukhtar Ansari stems from a number of FIRs registered by the Uttar Pradesh Police aside from two lodged in opposition to an organization known as Vikas Constructions (a partnership agency) that was run by his spouse, two brothers-in-law and others.
Mukhtar Ansari is underneath the ED scanner in reference to at the least 49 legal circumstances in opposition to him together with these on prices of land grabbing, homicide and extortion.
He is dealing with trial in a number of circumstances, together with an try to homicide and homicide, in Uttar Pradesh.
In August, the Ghazipur district administration had seized two plots of land, measuring 1.901 hectares and valued at over Rs 6 crore, that was bought utilizing alleged unlawful earnings of Mukhtar Ansari, in accordance with police.
In July, the Uttar Pradesh Police had hooked up Afzal Ansari’s property value Rs 14.90 crore underneath the Gangster Act.
