Mumbai, November 5, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached assets worth Rs 4 crore, including a Mumbai property and bank balances, in an extortion and conspiracy case involving fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his aide Salim Iqbal Qureshi alias Salim Fruit, an official said on Thursday.
The ED’s Mumbai Zonal Office attached Dongri’s Lambat Building, currently held in the name of Shazia Salim Iqbal Qureshi, wife of Salim Fruit, along with bank balances belonging to Aslam Abdul Rehman Patni and other accused. The action was taken under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.
The investigation began following an FIR registered at Dadar Police Station and subsequently probed by the Anti-Extortion Cell of the Mumbai Police Crime Branch. The FIR relates to allegations of criminal conspiracy, cheating, criminal breach of trust, forgery and the use of forged documents.
According to the ED, its investigation revealed that accused Shabbir Ahmed Hassan Karolia and Yusuf Ahmed Hassen Karolia allegedly conspired to illegally acquire Lambat Building by impersonating its original owner and fabricating documents, including a deed of conveyance.
The agency further alleged that Aslam Abdul Rehman Patni acquired a 50 per cent share of the building, belonging to Yasmin Mohammed Ahmed and late Sherzada Jangrez Khan, in 2019 by threatening and coercing them in the name of the D-Company, Dawood Ibrahim and Salim Iqbal Qureshi alias Salim Fruit.
The original owners were allegedly dispossessed of their share without receiving any payment. Subsequently, Patni transferred the property to Shazia Salim Iqbal Qureshi, the wife of Salim Fruit, the ED said.
The agency’s investigation indicated that successive transactions were structured to give the appearance of legitimate transfers to a property allegedly acquired through extortion and coercion, ultimately placing it in the name of Salim Fruit’s wife.
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