Dawood ‘aide’ Jabir Moti to be free of UK jail

Jabir Moti, described in courtroom as a “top lieutenant” of Dawood Ibrahim’s worldwide legal community, is ready to be free of a London jail and fly out to Pakistan after the US dropped an extradition request for him to face drug trafficking, cash laundering and blackmail expenses.
Moti, a 53-year-old Pakistani nationwide who’s often known as Jabir Motiwala and Jabir Siddiq, had appealed in opposition to his extradition order within the High Court in London and was awaiting judgment when the extradition request was withdrawn this week.
The US extradition request had acknowledged that Moti reported on to underworld don Dawood, who’s a chosen terrorist and needed for the 1993 serial bombings in Mumbai.

“Mr Motiwala was granted unconditional bail by Westminster Magistrates’ Court. The USA have withdrawn the extradition request. Therefore, we will not be appealing any decision to grant bail,” mentioned the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which seems in courtroom on behalf of US authorities in extradition issues.
Moti has been behind bars at Wandsworth jail in southwest London since his arrest in 2018.
According to sources, Moti now awaits a ultimate UK Home Office sign-off on the bail order and is anticipated to fly out to Pakistan within the coming days.
The UK Home Office declined to make a press release, saying it didn’t “comment on individual cases”.Last month, Pakistani media reviews claimed {that a} former FBI agent had come ahead stating that his bosses had ordered him to entice Moti at any value.
The former agent was quoted by Geo News as saying that he had “irrefutable evidence” proving Moti’s innocence.
Besides cash laundering, Moti confronted extradition to the US on expenses of extortion and conspiracy to import illegal substances equivalent to heroine after his arrest by Scotland Yard’s Extradition Unit in August 2018.

Meanwhile, on the final enchantment listening to within the High Court on March 25, Lord Justice Jeremy Stuart-Smith and Justice Robert Jay famous that this was no “straightforward case” as they reserved their judgment, which was anticipated later this month.