Uttar Pradesh: ED arrests Mukhtar Ansari's kin in money laundering case

LUCKNOW: The Prayagraj unit of Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Atif Raza in connection with a money laundering case from Ghazipur late Monday night. Raza is the brother-in-law of jailed mafia-don Mukhtar Ansari.
Atif Raza was granted bail by a court on Monday in a separate case but the ED officials placed him under arrest in the money laundering case.
A case of Prevention of Money Laundering Act in June 2021 was first registered against Mukhtar Ansari based on an FIR lodged in UP's Mau under sections of the Indian Penal Code and Prevention of Damage to Public Properties Act.
ED said that during the probe of the said case it surfaced that a firm, Vikas Construction, presently run by wife of Mukhtar Afshan Ansari, his two brothers-in-laws namely Atif Raza and Anwar Shahzad as partners, had usurped government land in Mau's Raini village and illegally constructed a godown on it. A similar illegal construction was also allegedly done by Vikas Construction in Ghazipur.