NIA workforce in Dubai to probe D-gang’s handiworks in terror-smuggling-hawala acts
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A five-member workforce of the National Investigation Agency left for Dubai just lately to research instances associated to the involvement of Dawood Ibrahim and his cartel – higher often called D-company, for working ‘international terrorist networks and transnational organised felony syndicate that includes smuggling, hawala extortion.
According to NIA sources, the workforce will look into varied features of cash laundering and terror funding angles involving the D-Company, the extra leads of which had been picked up throughout greater than 150 pan-India latest raids and arrests in reference to the matter of terror funding and radicalisation within the final three months.
The NIA go to additionally coincides with the latest go to of a high-level Indian finance workforce in February to agency up modalities to strengthen UAE-India commerce relationships that additionally included illustration from the Reserve Bank of India.
The NIA in November had filed a cost sheet naming absconders Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and his associates for working terror networks and transnational organised felony syndicate involving funding for terror networks by means of hawala, supplying medicine and arms and even producing funds by means of extortion.
The latest Dubai journey of the NIA sleuths gathers significance amidst leads generated in the course of the latest NIA raids and arrests throughout India in reference to funding for terror and radicalisation apart from proof within the type of digital units, paperwork and different supplies. Also, the NIA workforce would delve deep into comparable working patterns of different drug-terror networks being run in a number of states from Canada, Malaysia and different international locations in north India together with Punjab, Haryana and J&Ok amongst others.
Besides Dawood, the opposite names talked about within the chargesheet are members of the D-Company syndicate together with Shakeel Shaikh alias Chhota Shakeel, Arif Abubakar Shaikh alias Arif Bhaijaan, Shabbir Abubakar Shaikh alias Shabbir and Mohammad Salim Qureshi alias Salim Fruit, concerned in international felony and terrorist actions together with in India and working hawala and extortion actions as nicely.
According to the NIA sources the chargesheet states that “Investigations have established that the accused persons who are members of the D-Company, a terrorist gang and an organized crime syndicate, had conspired to further the criminal activities of the gang by carrying out various types of unlawful activities. In furtherance of the said conspiracy, they raised, collected and extorted huge amounts of money by threatening and by putting person(s) in fear of death or grievous hurt, for the D-Company, for the benefit of an individual terrorist (Dawood Ibrahim) in the instant case, and with the intention to threaten the security of India and create terror in the minds of the general public”.
The case was registered by the NIA workforce in Mumbai in March 2022 below varied sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the related sections of the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act, 1999 and the Indian Penal Code. Shabir, Arif and Salim are in custody whereas Dawood and Shakeel who’s an UN-designated worldwide terrorists, are absconding from India.
A five-member workforce of the National Investigation Agency left for Dubai just lately to research instances associated to the involvement of Dawood Ibrahim and his cartel – higher often called D-company, for working ‘international terrorist networks and transnational organised felony syndicate that includes smuggling, hawala extortion.
According to NIA sources, the workforce will look into varied features of cash laundering and terror funding angles involving the D-Company, the extra leads of which had been picked up throughout greater than 150 pan-India latest raids and arrests in reference to the matter of terror funding and radicalisation within the final three months.
The NIA go to additionally coincides with the latest go to of a high-level Indian finance workforce in February to agency up modalities to strengthen UAE-India commerce relationships that additionally included illustration from the Reserve Bank of India.
The NIA in November had filed a cost sheet naming absconders Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and his associates for working terror networks and transnational organised felony syndicate involving funding for terror networks by means of hawala, supplying medicine and arms and even producing funds by means of extortion.
The latest Dubai journey of the NIA sleuths gathers significance amidst leads generated in the course of the latest NIA raids and arrests throughout India in reference to funding for terror and radicalisation apart from proof within the type of digital units, paperwork and different supplies. Also, the NIA workforce would delve deep into comparable working patterns of different drug-terror networks being run in a number of states from Canada, Malaysia and different international locations in north India together with Punjab, Haryana and J&Ok amongst others.
Besides Dawood, the opposite names talked about within the chargesheet are members of the D-Company syndicate together with Shakeel Shaikh alias Chhota Shakeel, Arif Abubakar Shaikh alias Arif Bhaijaan, Shabbir Abubakar Shaikh alias Shabbir and Mohammad Salim Qureshi alias Salim Fruit, concerned in international felony and terrorist actions together with in India and working hawala and extortion actions as nicely.
According to the NIA sources the chargesheet states that “Investigations have established that the accused persons who are members of the D-Company, a terrorist gang and an organized crime syndicate, had conspired to further the criminal activities of the gang by carrying out various types of unlawful activities. In furtherance of the said conspiracy, they raised, collected and extorted huge amounts of money by threatening and by putting person(s) in fear of death or grievous hurt, for the D-Company, for the benefit of an individual terrorist (Dawood Ibrahim) in the instant case, and with the intention to threaten the security of India and create terror in the minds of the general public”.
The case was registered by the NIA workforce in Mumbai in March 2022 below varied sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the related sections of the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act, 1999 and the Indian Penal Code. Shabir, Arif and Salim are in custody whereas Dawood and Shakeel who’s an UN-designated worldwide terrorists, are absconding from India.
