Mumbai, June 2 (IANS) 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 IANS.
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.