NEW DELHI: In its first overseas attachment order in a money-laundering case against late drug lord
Iqbal Mirchi and his family members,
the Enforcement Directorate has attached 15 properties of Mirchi family and others in Dubai worth over Rs 203 crore. Earlier, the agency had attached assets worth Rs 573 crore in Mumbai and other cities in the same case, taking the total attachment to Rs 776 crore.
The attached assets include a hotel in Dubai called Midwest Hotel Apartment, besides 14 other commercial and residential properties having a total value of AED 101.52 million, equivalent to Rs 203.27 crore, the ED claimed on Tuesday.
The ED registered a
money laundering case against Iqbal Mirchi and family members on September 26 last year and summoned and questioned former civil aviation minister
Prafula Patel several times for his dealings with Mirchi’s wife regarding a housing property owned by the Patel family.