Overview

• On October 8, the Enforcement Directorate searched nine locations in Dongri, Mazgaon, Worli and other areas linked to a Mumbai narcotics network.
• Officers seized Rs 42 lakh in cash, three luxury vehicles, digital devices and property papers, and froze a bank locker along with multiple accounts.
• The PMLA case, initiated from an NCB investigation naming Faisal Javed Shaikh, Alfiya Shaikh and others, now tracks a shell-company network suspected of routing over Rs 100 crore via hawala and bogus invoicing.
• Faisal Javed Shaikh is under preventive detention under the PIT-NDPS Act after earlier bail in the NCB case, according to authorities.
• ED officials say prosecutions and provisional attachment are being pursued, while the NCB has offered a reward for wanted supplier Salim Dola, who is believed to be abroad with links to Turkey and the UAE.