A court here Thursday extended till June 7 the judicial custody of Hasan Ali, allgedly the country’s top tax evader and money launderer.
“Principal Sessions Judge Sapna Joshi extended his custody till June 7 and will hear his bail plea also on the same day,” Khan’s lawyer I.P. Bagaria told .
Khan was taken into custody by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) March 17 after the Supreme Court cancelled his bail granted by a trial court.
Among other things, Khan is suspected to have stashed away around $8 billion in Swiss bank accounts, transferred cash and assets out of the country through dubious means and evaded taxes on income with a suspected liability of over Rs.40,000 crore.
