Salim Dola’s gang members caught in large‑scale ED raid

In a coordinated sweep on 9 October, the Enforcement Directorate’s Mumbai bureau detained two key figures linked to the drug empire of Salim Ismail Dola, who operates close to the fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim.

The detainees, Praveen alias Nagesh Ramchandra Shinde and Brijesh Kanji Moradia, were booked under Section 19 of the Prevention of Money‑Laundering Act, 2002.

The investigation traced an expansive criminal web that managed the acquisition of chemical precursors, the covert fabrication of methamphetamine (MD), and the movement of the product across state lines and to foreign markets.

Shinde is accused of supervising the secret labs where MD was produced and of overseeing the financial channeling of the drug’s proceeds, which were later invested in immovable assets in the names of his close network.

Moradia’s contribution involved the procurement and logistical supply of the chemicals essential for MD creation.

Cash inflows from Dola were routed via the Angadia system into several third‑party and familial accounts, later transferred through banking channels to chemical firms, facilitating the drug operation’s supply chain.

The illicit money was subsequently layered as commissions credited to Moradia’s accounts and further used to acquire property, revealing a sophisticated laundering process.

These arrests highlight the ED’s intensified effort to dismantle trans‑national drug syndicates and seize the monetary foundations that sustain them.