LUCKNOW, Oct. 24 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested late mafia don-turned-politician, Mukhtar Ansari's close associate Mohd Shadab, alias 'Dumpy', on Wednesday morning from Lucknow's Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport in connection with a Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) case, ED officials said on Friday. They said the ED had registered a case in the matter around three years back and he was at large since then. He was arrested soon after he arrived in Lucknow from Dubai, he added.

According to officials, Dumpy, a resident of the Nagar area in Ghazipur, was considered the "uncrowned king" of the massive diesel (oil) scam involving telecom tower companies, worth thousands of crores. This high-profile arrest ha...