<p>The <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/Enforcement-Directorate-articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>Enforcement Directorate</strong></a> has arrested sacked DMK functionary Jaffer Sadiq at the Tihar Jail in connection with a drugs linked money laundering investigation, official sources said Friday.</p>
<p>The federal agency will soon take the 36-year-old to Chennai and produce him before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) seeking his remand for custodial interrogation, the sources said.</p>
<p>Sadiq was arrested by the ED on June 26 at the Tihar Jail where he is lodged in judicial custody in a NCB case. A production warrant is being sought from a Delhi court following which he is expected to be taken to Chennai where the ED case is lodged, they said.</p>
<p>The ED had earlier obtained the court's permission to question him in jail and he was taken into custody during this procedure.</p>
<p>He was first arrested by the <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/mumbai-ncb-busts-major-interstate-drug-trafficking-network-sezies-31-50-kg-md-3-held-23358023" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)</strong></a> in March for his alleged involvement in the smuggling of about 3,500 kg of pseudoephedrine with a street value of more than Rs 2,000 crore.</p>
<p>The money laundering case stems from separate NCB and Customs department complaints filed against Sadiq and his partners on charges of indulging into "cross-border illegal trade of narcotics substances".</p>
<p>Sadiq, purportedly the mastermind behind an international drug trafficking syndicate, stands accused of smuggling pseudoephedrine camouflaged as health-mix powder and desiccated coconut to Australia and New Zealand, the ED had said.</p>
<p>He was expelled by the ruling DMK in February after his name and purported links to the drugs network were mentioned by the NCB.</p>
<p>Tamil Nadu Law Minister and DMK leader S Regupathy had asserted that his party had no links with Sadiq.</p>
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Enforcement Directorate has arrested sacked DMK functionary Jaffer Sadiq at the Tihar Jail in connection with a drugs linked money laundering investigation

ED arrests expelled DMK functionary in drugs-linked money laundering case

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The federal agency will soon take the 36-year-old to Chennai and produce him before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) seeking his remand for custodial interrogation

ED arrests expelled DMK functionary in drugs-linked money laundering case

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