<span style="color: #222222;">NCP leader Praful Patel today deposed before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Mumbai after being summoned by the agency in connection with a money laundering probe linked to the alleged illegal assets of late Iqbal Mirchi, an aide of underworld gangster Dawood Ibrahim. Patel, a former Union minister in the UPA regime, reached the Enforcement Directorate office in south Mumbai in the morning today.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">According to ED officials, Patel's Millennium Developers Private Limited constructed a building called Ceejay House in 2006-07 and its third and fourth floors were transferred to Mirchi's wife Hajra Iqbal. The land on which the building was made is said to be owned by Mirchi. Investigators claim the land was purchased from the proceeds of crime of money laundering, drugs trafficking and alleged extortion crimes.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Praful Patel and his party have denied any wrongdoing in the deal and said that the property papers explain that the transaction is clean and transparent. At a recent press conference, Praful Patel rubbished reports about his alleged deal as mere speculation.</span><br />