New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) moved court on Friday to get 3 family members of gangster Iqbal Mirchi declared as Fugitive Economic Offenders which will eventually result in confiscation of their assets.
The investigative agency said that an application has been filed under Fugitive Economic Offenders Act before the court “with a prayer to declare Junaid Iqbal Memon, Asif Iqbal Memon (sons of Mirchi) and Hajra Memon (wife) as fugitive economic offenders”.
“In the first phase, prayer has been made for confiscation of 15 Indian properties including the 3rd and 4th floor of Ceejay House (in Mumbai) having market value of about Rs 96 crore and six bank accounts having balance of Rs 1.9 crore.”
“Prayer has also been made for allowing ED to file supplementary applications under the fugitive economic offenders law,” it said.
The FEO Act prescribes confiscation of property of fugitive economic offender, if a warrant has been issued against him for an offence involving an amount of Rs 100 crore or more and he has left the country and refuses to return.
The ED has filed a money laundering case against Mirchi, who died at the age of 63 in London in 2013, his family and others last year after studying multiple Mumbai Police FIRs lodged against them.
The agency had alleged Mirchi “indirectly owned various properties in and around Mumbai”.
Mirchi was alleged to be the right-hand man of global terrorist Dawood Ibrahim in drug trafficking and extortion crimes. His properties worth about Rs 798 crore have been attached by the agency till now in this case.
