A special court in Mumbai on Friday remanded an accused arrested in the cash-for-votes case to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody till November 29, news agency PTI reported.

The probe agency told the court that the accused, Nagani Akram Mohammad Shafi, was the "mastermind" who opened 14 bank accounts in a cooperative bank and transferred money worth Rs 100 crore to the accounts of shell companies with the help of hawala transactions.