ED questions NCP leader Praful Patel over links with Dawood Ibrahim's close aide Iqbal Mirchi
Senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Praful Patel arrived at the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office for questioning in a land deal case linked to fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim's close aide Iqbal Mirchi.
The ED had summoned Praful Patel in connection with a money-laundering probe linked to the alleged illegal assets of late Iqbal Mirchi.
Patel, a former union minister in the UPA regime, was asked to depose in Mumbai on October 18.
The ED is expected to record Patel's statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in connection with a deal between the wife of Mirchi and a real estate company promoted by Patel.
Praful Patel and his party have denied any wrongdoing in the deal and said that the property papers explain that the transaction is "clean and transparent".