CAs, Hawala & Benami Assets: Former Dawood Aide Salim Dola Faces ED Heat After Extradition From Turkey

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• CAs, Hawala & Benami Assets: Dawood Aide Salim Dola Faces ED Heat After Extradition From Turkey Reported By, Last Updated: June 02, 2026, 16:46 IST The agency launched coordinated raids across 20 locations in Maharashtra and Gujarat to dismantle a transnational narcotics-trafficking and money-laundering racket Alleged drug trafficker and close aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, Salim Dola, is escorted by NCB officials upon his arrival at the Mumbai airport.
• (File pic/PTI) Weeks after being extradited from Turkey, former Dawood Ibrahim aide Salim Ismail Dola is facing intense scrutiny from the Directorate of Enforcement (ED).
• The agency launched coordinated raids across 20 locations in Maharashtra and Gujarat to dismantle a transnational narcotics-trafficking and money-laundering racket.
• An ED official confirmed the operation, stating, “The Mumbai Zonal office of the Directorate of Enforcement is conducting massive search operations at 20 locations across Mumbai, Surat, Ankleshwar, and Rajkot.
• This is in connection with an investigation under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, against a transnational organised narcotics trafficking syndicate operated by Salim Ismail Dola and his associates." Dola, who is accused of running the international drugs network, was extradited from Turkey in May this year.