MUMBAI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed an FIR for trespassing and attempting to occupy a flat in Thane which was attached in a money laundering case it investigated against Iqbal Kaskar and his Pakistan-based gangster brother Dawood Ibrahim.The flat was attached in the case in 2022, in the money laundering case linked to extortion by Iqbal Kaskar and others.The flat was in ED’s possession and it had put its seal on the lock. Kaskar had acquired the flat through extortion and threat in 2015 and got it registered in the name of his associate Mumtaz Azaz Sheikh, alias Raju.Recently, the ED learnt that certain persons entered the flat after removing its possession notice, claiming ownership of the flat.Since the money laundering case is pending in the court, the ED informed the court about it, repossessed the flat and filed a police case last week.
