Dawood Ibrahim & Underworld Watch Thread

Baikul · Post by **Baikul** » 13 Aug 2013 21:08

I have my doubts whether DI is, or ever was, apnda banda or unka banda or anyone's banda except his own. IMO he is a player among other state and non-state players, this or that side of the border. He does favours and collects debts. Doubtless some maharathis over here are in his eternal debt.

Peregrine · Post by **Peregrine** » 14 Aug 2013 13:58

Dawood Ibrahim desires to watch OUATIMD

At a time when Pakistan is waffling over the whereabouts of Dawood Ibrahim, a certain film publicist seems remarkably confident about his location. The said publicist contacted mediapersons late on Monday night to inform that Dawood had apparently expressed a desire to watch Ekta Kapoor's upcoming film set in the Mumbai underworld.

What's more, the publicist offered to set up a telecon with D-man himself, for anyone interested in having... you know... a little chit-chat about films and the weather we presume. In this season of outrageous publicity gimmicks where no familial relation or faith is sacrosanct, this one could well come out tops. Hope the goodfellas at our intelligence agencies are reading this. At least they'd know who to call now to get to the country's most-wanted man.

OUATIMD : Once upon a time in Mumbai Dobaara

Cheers

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 15 Aug 2013 15:07

Iqbal Mirchi, Dawood aide, Dies in London - ToI

Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's close aide Iqbal Mirchi, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, died of a heart attack in London on Wednesday.

Mirchi, 63, the right-hand man of India's topmost terrorist, was also facing drug smuggling charges in India.

He had been living in a large six-bedroom home in an exclusive part of Hornchurch, a town in Essex, northeast of London.

Ranked among the world's top 50 drug barons, Muhammed Iqbal Memon or Iqbal Mirchi had been issued an Interpol Red Corner Notice in 1994 on Central Bureau of Investigation's request.

In April 1995, officers from Scotland Yard had raided Mirchi's home and arrested him on drugs and terrorism charges in connection with the blasts in Mumbai.

However, an extradition request by India was turned down by magistrates here [London].

Scotland Yard's investigation of Mirchi, which ended in 1999, found no evidence of criminal activity and in 2001 the UK Home Office granted him indefinite leave to remain in the UK.

India's most-wanted criminal Dawood Ibrahim is on FBI's list of top terrorists in the world.

Why did the US and the UK go to extraordinary lengths to protect those involved in the 1993 blasts ? One has to only surmise that some incidents faced by such antagonistic nations were God's way of sending retribution. Certainly, the UK has not given up its un-achieved goal of fragmenting India.

Atri · Post by **Atri** » 23 Aug 2013 10:42

Pawar's Time Of Reckoning

The Nexus
After the 1993 Bombay blasts, the Home Ministry collected considerable information on the links between Congress politicians and the underworld. The details of this investigation were submitted to the Vohra Committee. Excerpts:

Underworld Operator Political/Bureaucratic Patronage

Maharashtra

Dawood Ibrahim : Sharad Pawar, Salim Zakaria, Javed Khan (both ex-ministers close to Pawar)
Mohammed Dosa : Madan Baffna (ex-minister)
P. Raj Koli : Arun Mehta (former home minister)
Haji Ahmed : D.V. Patil, Javed
Khan Khan Brothers : Arun Mehta, Salim Zakaria (ex-ministers)
Tiger Memon: Javed Khan
Gujarat

Abdul Latif : Chimanbhai Patel (ex-chief minister)
Rati Lal Deva Navik : Cadir Peerjada ( PCC vice-president),
Izzu Sheikh, Haji : Ahmed Patel, AICC general secretary
Hassana Dada : C.D. Patel (home minister), Thakor Nair (supply minister).
Amar Subhania : Chimanbhai Patel
Ram Bhai Gadwai : Ashok Lal (" s/o Babu Lal, minister of sports") Santosheben Jadeja, MLA: "Earlier of Janata Dal. Joined Congress. Known as mafia queen."
Just last year they had called it a damp squib. Now it looks like another political tinderbox, awaiting ignition. In mid-1995, when the N.N. Vohra Committee report on the criminal-politician nexus was tabled in Parliament, the Opposition was united in heaping scorn on it. The perception was that the 12-page report was incomplete and politically sensitive information had been suppressed. Months later, after the episode had receded from public memory, there is evidence to confirm that suspicion. Some documents submitted to the committee by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and procured by Outlook reveal shocking charges of the murky link between prominent politicians and the underworld.

The MHA report alleges that there was a definite nexus between underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's associates and former Maharashtra chief minister Sharad Pawar. According to the report, Mool Chand Shah alias Choksi—a hawala racketeer also involved in the Jain case and "close to Dawood Ibrahim and gang"—had, on various occasions between December 1979 and October 1992,transferred or paid Rs 72 crore to Pawar. Many other Congress leaders have also been listed as recipients of money from Shah.

The report states that "between December 1979 and February 1980, MoolChand Choksi paid Rs 7 crore to Sharad Pawar, which was received from an undisclosed source in the West". It also confirms that Choksi had "developed closeness" with Dawood and his gang way back in 1980. Shah was also responsible for transferring money for "various important people of Bombay to the Middle-East and other countries for safe caching".

Choksi is said to have paid another instalment of Rs 5 crore around May 1991 to Pawar. According to the report, "the amount was reportedly transferred from a Middle-Eastern country through the hawala channel. Reportedly, the above amounts were paid for election purposes". Shah not only provided Pawar with funds for elections but was also used by the latter to siphon money abroad. Says the report: "On behalf of the chief minister of Maharashtra, Pappu Kalyani (Kalani) had handed over Rs 20 crore to Cho-ksi in September 1990 for transferring abroad. Another amount of Rs 50 crore was transferred by Choksi on behalf of the chief minister." The deal was executed through an advocate.

The report says that Choksi had been in constant touch with Pawar till a few months before the Bombay blasts. A major transaction of Rs 10 crore allegedly took place in October 1992. In this transaction, say the documents, "Choksi delivered an amount of Rs 10 crore to the nephew of Sharad Pawar. The amount had reportedly come from the Middle-East." Shah was arrested under TADA on May 4, 1993, for funding Tiger Memon with Rs 2.5 crore for the blasts.

During the interrogation of Usman Ghani, an accused in the Bombay blasts case, it was revealed that he had established contacts with the glitterati of Bombay for siphoning their black money through the hawala conduit to foreign accounts. The report names "a very top politician of Bombay" apart from a few film stars. "Some of the important personalities whose money he (Ghani) transacted are Dilip Kumar, Feroz Khan and one Banerjee, an advocate of Bombay, who is reported to be very close to a very top politician of Bombay."

Hawala operators like Choksi mentioned in the MHA report are also involved in the new multi-crore Jain hawala scandal. Apart from Shah, the name of a Delhi-based hawala dealer, Shambhu Dayal Sharma alias Guptaji, figures in the report. It was Sharma's arrest in 1991 and his subsequent interrogation which led the CBI to raid J.K. Jain's residence, where it stumbled across the now-famous diaries. Sharma had told the CBI that he used to work for J.K Jain. The MHA reports say that Sharma had been funnelling money to politicians for over a decade.

Sharma's name first came to the notice of the authorities in May 1985 when he allegedly acted as a conduit for Choksi in a Rs 3-crore payoff to Arun Nehru, the then internal security minister.

Inquiries made by the Government agencies, on which the MHA report is based, reveals that Mool Chand Shah lived in 604, Rajendra Vihar, Guildern Lane, Lamington Road in Bombay. The hawala kingpin hails from Dhinmal village in Jalore district, Rajasthan. His father migrated to Bombay and tried his hand at the textile business. Later, the Shahs switched to the diamond trade.

Choksi's underworld activities aroused enough curiosity to prompt investigations by various agencies. But he managed to skip the dragnet of the law, thanks to his political clout. In March 1989, a detention order—No. SPL 3(A)PSA 0189/107 under COFEPOSA was issued against him. But this order was "revoked by the Government of Maharashtra" on May 10, 1990, "without assigning any reason".

The MHA report points out that "the revocation was done at the behest of the Home Minister of the Ruling Party (sic)," Arun Mehta, a close Pawar confidant. "For this action, Arun Mehta and other politicians were paid Rs 2 crore by Choksi," it notes.

The Enforcement Directorate and the Marine and Preventive Wing of the Customs, Bombay, also registered cases against Choksi in 1989 and 1990 respectively. He was arrested on November 30, 1990, in connection with one of the cases but was immediately released on bail. A development which the report clearly ascribes to his political connections. "Every time he procured his bail either on technical grounds through his lawyers or through money power."

It is also admitted that Choksi could never be interrogated at length because of the fact that he had "sympathisers" at the Centre and in the state government. He was held again in April 1991 following Sharma's arrest in connection with "an international conspiracy of funding terrorist organisations in Kashmir". Even when he was being interrogated by the Bombay police, Choksi used to claim that he could not be kept under detention for long because of his "high political connection". The report says: "He was dropping the name of Chandra Shekhar, former Prime Minister, in this connection."

A part of Dawood's operations were based in Gujarat, particularly along the coast. The MHA report also lists politi-cians from the state who had links with the underworld. Among those named is the then chief minister, late Chimanbhai Patel, and AICC General Secretary Ahmed Patel ( see box ).

The report, had it been tabled in Parliament along with the much-maligned Vohra panel report, would have fulfilled the objective set before it when it was constituted on July 9, 1993. After the Bombay blasts, when the then internal security minister Rajesh Pilot ordered that the committee be set up, it was asked "to take stock of all available information about the activities of crime syndicate/mafia organisations which had developed links with and were being protected by Government functionaries and political personalities."

The Vohra Committee had the information but no one in the Congress wanted it to see the light of day. The procrastinations that followed resulted in the 12 pages of generalities that has now come into the open and nothing specific about the vicious nexus in operation in three countries.

Fits very well with the history of rise of modern power elite of MH. Will write about it shortly. Its. History of how a modern day Todarmal created a power sharing network of local mansabdars which form today's elite 96-clanner cooperative-sector emperors of Western MH. Fascinating and sad, both. Especially comparing it to rest of KG basin in 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s.

Prem Kumar · Post by **Prem Kumar** » 24 Aug 2013 01:54

Thanks Atri. I had also stumbled upon it recently, even though this is an old article. Though the title says Pawar, Ahmed Patel (Sonia's right hand man & per some ahem-ahem rumors, her lover) is a key beneficiary.

Its no wonder that the Congress does not want to touch Dawood. He may have a dead-man-switch type deal whereby all dirty secrets will spill out if something happens to him

P.S. I guess this was written in the days when Outlook had not sold out completely

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 24 Aug 2013 19:57

Tunda undergoes pacemaker implant surgery at AIIMS

I think someone mentioned on BRF that something like this would happen. This is part of Papi jappi or what?? This congi govt is too much.

PTI | Aug 24, 2013, 05.38 PM IST

Tunda, who was arrested from the India-Nepal border last Friday, is a close to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and one of 20 terrorists India had asked the Pakistan government to hand over after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.

NEW DELHI: Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) operative Abdul Karim Tunda, who is admitted at AIIMS here, underwent a surgery on Sunday to implant a pacemaker in his heart.

70-year-old Tunda, who was admitted to Safdarjung Hospital on Thursday night after he complained of severe chest pain and shifted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Friday afternoon, was detected with complete heart block, hospital sources said.

His condition was stated to be stable after the surgery.

"Tunda was taken to the cath lab at around 2.45pm on Saturday from the cardiac care unit following which the doctors implanted a pacemaker in his heart," they said.

He underwent the procedure in the supervision of cardio consultants Dr Nitish Naik and Dr Gautam Sharma.

A pacemaker is a small device implanted in the patient to control heartbeat.

Complete heart block occurs when the electrical signal can't pass normally from the atria, the heart's upper chambers, to the ventricles or lower chambers.

A heavy contingent of armed police guards were deployed outside the ward where Tunda is being treated.

Earlier during the day, a magistrate visited Tunda in hospital and remanded him in judicial custody till September 7.

Tunda, who was arrested from the India-Nepal border last Friday, is a close assistant of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and one of 20 terrorists India had asked the Pakistan government to hand over after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. He is suspected to be involved in 40 bombings in the country and is the first in the list to be arrested.

According to Delhi Police, he is wanted for his role in 1993 Mumbai serial train blasts, Delhi bomb blasts of 1997-98 and serial bombings in the state of UP and also at Panipat, Sonepat, Ludhiana and Hyderabad.

RKumar · Post by **RKumar** » 24 Aug 2013 22:39

wtf ...why not let him pass? Spend public money and time to save terrorist?

shyamd · Post by **shyamd** » 24 Aug 2013 23:24

Because he has info that we need

brihaspati · Post by **brihaspati** » 24 Aug 2013 23:50

Dawood is on the wane. Hence some wisecrackers will propose using the weakened D against supposed enemies of Bharat by allowing him to be "rehabilitated". In that case, Tunda types might spill more than would be politically containable. Before falling into anti-D hands - better to get him under the wraps so gaddi remains safe.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 25 Aug 2013 00:22

Tunda is valuable. Its important to keep him alive.
I predict even Dawood Ibrahim will return unless ISI accidents him.

It started with Abu Jundal last year.

All these Indian Muslim terrorists went to TSP and eventually realized that TSP was using them onlee and hence the disenchantment and the return to India.

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 25 Aug 2013 00:29

As in the Return of the Prodigal??

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 25 Aug 2013 02:07

Not in that way. Just come back to die.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 25 Aug 2013 02:45

Die and waste 2 Gaaj Zammen? Cremate him up north in winter.

Yayavar · Post by **Yayavar** » 25 Aug 2013 03:58

ramana wrote:Not in that way. Just come back to die.

Like Jagjit Singh Chauhan ... after creating the murderous Khalistani movement comes back to India and dies in 2007.

KrishnaK · Post by **KrishnaK** » 25 Aug 2013 04:23

ramana wrote:Tunda is valuable. Its important to keep him alive.
I predict even Dawood Ibrahim will return unless ISI accidents him.

It started with Abu Jundal last year.

All these Indian Muslim terrorists went to TSP and eventually realized that TSP was using them onlee and hence the disenchantment and the return to India.

ramana, there's just one Indian muslim terrorist, pakistan.

Manas · Post by **Manas** » 25 Aug 2013 10:15

Tunda's "arrest" is probably stage managed. This smells like a covert op wherein the agencies somehow convinced him to "return" home. Dont know what his incentives are - but there has to be some quid pro quo in such deals.

IIRC some of Tiger Memon and Dawood's family members "surrendered/returned" home over the last few years...

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 25 Aug 2013 10:17

Manas, Glad to see you back after a long time!!!

sum · Post by **sum** » 25 Aug 2013 10:19

^^ One of the chief fake currency kingpins was nabbed at WB border. So definitely smells of a covert op/deal between Tunda and our agencies

suryag · Post by **suryag** » 25 Aug 2013 10:57

deal could have been his heart surgery

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 25 Aug 2013 12:28

tunda will need surgery if an artery near the heart is blocked...will be either stent or bypass. pacemaker is just to keep him from having a heart attack till then.

manjgu · Post by **manjgu** » 25 Aug 2013 12:32

medical tourism at its best !!

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 25 Aug 2013 16:22

i suspect that after realising how they are getting played in TSP and TSAW (Terrorist Sympathising Arabian Wastelands) these guys yearn to return to their watan, and then strike deals with the authorities, to quietly while away their remaining days in custody, breathing a free'er air and lamenting their wayward days

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » 25 Aug 2013 16:59

D bhai will have to 'sacrifice' one of his pieces if he wishes to hold out for longer. This battle is set to end where it all started onlee...

The tea leaves tell me that the half-Arab will win over the secular dispensation of Dilli, while the native is left all alone, classic opportunism and mercantile mentality at play again.

devesh · Post by **devesh** » 25 Aug 2013 18:28

Lalmohan wrote:i suspect that after realising how they are getting played in TSP and TSAW (Terrorist Sympathising Arabian Wastelands) these guys yearn to return to their watan, and then strike deals with the authorities, to quietly while away their remaining days in custody, breathing a free'er air and lamenting their wayward days

there is no such thing. they will simply pick the least painful option. watan/desh et al are useless concepts when dealing with DI-types. opportunism is the only thing that matters. why do we have to always believe that these Islamists still have some shred of humanity left in them even after all they've done? why the compulsive necessity to paint a human picture on animals?

Supratik · Post by **Supratik** » 25 Aug 2013 19:47

Yakub Memon got the death penalty. Abu Salem is going to escape thanks to Portugal. Tunda will hang unless he expires before judgment (most likely). So D is unlikely to return.

sum · Post by **sum** » 25 Aug 2013 21:05

^^ Article in THE WEEK print edition on Tunda mentions that 3-4 of the scum who were brought back from the Gulf/Iran commited suicide within 1-2 years of return.

Wonder which route Tunda will go?

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 31 Aug 2013 09:50

As an academic exercise we should draw a mind map of DI and his contacts in India:criminals, police, politicians,lawyers, Bollywood personalities, Gulf Countries, and in TSP:criminals, ISI, terrorists, smugglers like AQK. Would be nice if we can put faces to these.

My hunch is if India tightens the police apparatus in India this whole network crumbles.

Garooda · Post by **Garooda** » 10 Sep 2013 00:02

I wonder what deal was cut (if any) in the backend to make this announcement?

Joint_India_US_Action

The Indian government has proposed a joint action with the United States to arrest the
fugitive gangster and country's most wanted terrorist, Dawood Ibrahim, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said here today.

"We have arrested some most wanted terrorists (of late) and have killed a few on the border. As far as Dawood (Ibrahim) is concerned, we are in touch with (US agency) the FBI," Shinde said, talking to reporters here.

"There is already a red corner notice (against Dawood Ibrahim). We have proposed a joint action with the US (to arrest him). US Attorney General Eric Holder has also agreed to this," he added.

Indian intelligence agencies have claimed for long that the gangster is living in Pakistan.

member_27444 · Post by **member_27444** » 10 Sep 2013 02:37

We take orders from WH and that surprise any one?
Next we seek help to contain Hindu Terrorists in India

Peregrine · Post by **Peregrine** » 10 Sep 2013 17:03

Nepal freezes assets of entities with Dawood, al-Qaida links

KATHMANDU : The Nepal government has directed freezing of assets of 224 individuals and 64 groups with links to al-Qaida and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim if they are present in Nepal.

Those on the list are individuals and groups identified by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as entities associated with al-Qaida.

Under resolutions adopted by the council, UN member states are required to freeze assets, and impose travel ban and embargo on individuals and entities with links to al-Qaida.

The decision was taken based on Nepal's commitment to UN principles and its adoption of the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Act.

Clause 29E(2) of the AML Act stipulates that properties of those who invest in organizations, groups, and people involved in terrorist acts or involved in advancing or manufacturing weapons of mass destruction will be frozen immediately.

"As per out commitment to the UN resolution and recommendation made by the ministry of foreign affairs, we have asked the concerned government agencies to freeze the proprieties or bank account(s) or financial transactions," Shanker Prasad Koirala, a spokesperson of Nepal's home ministry told IANS on Monday.

However, he said the government has no knowledge about the presence and financial transactions of al-Qaida-related individuals and organizations in the country.

"As a UN member state, it is the responsibility of Nepal to freeze the assets of anyone found to have links to the terrorist group," he said.

The UN had urged its member states several times to freeze without delay funds and other financial assets or economic resources of designated individuals and entities and prevent the entry into or transit through their territories by designated individuals.

Information posted in Nepal's home ministry website about Dawood Ibrahim states that his title is Sheikh and date of birth December 26, 1955.

He holds passports of several nations, according to the information.

It also lists the addresses of his properties in Karachi .

Comments : Can India do it? Yes it can. Will India Do It? Your Guess is as Good as mine!!!

Cheers

darshhan · Post by **darshhan** » 10 Sep 2013 17:37

Garooda wrote:I wonder what deal was cut (if any) in the backend to make this announcement?

Joint_India_US_Action

The Indian government has proposed a joint action with the United States to arrest the
fugitive gangster and country's most wanted terrorist, Dawood Ibrahim, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said here today.

"We have arrested some most wanted terrorists (of late) and have killed a few on the border. As far as Dawood (Ibrahim) is concerned, we are in touch with (US agency) the FBI," Shinde said, talking to reporters here.

"There is already a red corner notice (against Dawood Ibrahim). We have proposed a joint action with the US (to arrest him). US Attorney General Eric Holder has also agreed to this," he added.

Indian intelligence agencies have claimed for long that the gangster is living in Pakistan.

Pathetic. It should be USA that should be asking for our help in Indian Subcontinent. Just wondering what price will Americans gouge in lieu of Dawood?

member_22872 · Post by **member_22872** » 10 Sep 2013 17:51

KATHMANDU : The Nepal government has directed freezing of assets of 224 individuals and 64 groups with links to al-Qaida and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim if they are present in Nepal.

"As per out commitment to the UN resolution and recommendation made by the ministry of foreign affairs, we have asked the concerned government agencies to freeze the proprieties or bank account(s) or financial transactions," Shanker Prasad Koirala, a spokesperson of Nepal's home ministry told IANS on Monday.

However, he said the government has no knowledge about the presence and financial transactions of al-Qaida-related individuals and organizations in the country.

From above it appears Nepal is being forced. It has no intention of doing it by itself. Even after recent arrests(if true that they happened in Nepal) of IM and LeT guys are these Nepali guys so dumb unable to link the dots to Dawood that they are oblivious of his financial network in Nepal? And also it is well known about TSP pumping fake Indian currency through Nepal...and yet these guys have 'ifs and buts' to act against them.

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 10 Sep 2013 18:35

the US angle could be leverage on UAE (wild guess)

Anand K · Post by **Anand K** » 10 Oct 2013 12:49

Just finished "Dongri to Dubai".
Fascinating... and sometimes too fantastic to be unbelievable. Like Rajan walking into the Indian Embassy in Dubai and asking for the nearest IB/RAW jasoos (right after he got pakka khabar that he was arranged to sleep with the fishes after a gala yacht party), SRK hiding in Rani Mukherjee's trailer fearing Abu Salem's and his enforcers' calls, Bashu Dada's 300 pushups and the way DI neutralized him by a direct assault on his H&D, DI being dumped by a Hindu girl he had really fallen for, Ibrahim Kaksar's stature in the underworld AND the police community despite just being a constable, that Tiger Memon is now full time engaged in preaching, Dongri being the epicenter of crime since the mid/late 19th century.....

Heard some of these stories/anecdotes from other narratives and fictionalizations but Zaidi's unbroken narrative is perhaps the best.

PS: Interesting comment there, DI plays Pakistan just like Pakistan plays America.

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 10 Oct 2013 14:00

i can imagine that for DI, business comes first

Garooda · Post by **Garooda** » 10 Oct 2013 19:01

Lalmohan wrote:i can imagine that for DI, business comes first

I would also like to think that its his desi upbringing in mumbai that prepared him to play pukistan as pukis play unkil.

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 10 Oct 2013 20:16

DI will see the junta for what they are - another bunch of gangsters, so he is perfectly able to deal with them on his terms

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 11 Oct 2013 15:33

Anand K wrote:Just finished "Dongri to Dubai".
....., Ibrahim Kaksar's stature in the underworld AND the police community despite just being a constable

Had read this book some time back. It also mentions the rise of the politician Abdul Rehman Antulay from the same area. DI and he were also pals. Ibrahim Kaksar a Crime Branch HC, it seems also had a clout with the local Muslim community as well. BTW, regarding the arrest of three Tamil Nadu based terrorists from an AP village. One of them is known as "Police" Fakruddin. Why? His father (and not he) was a police constable/HC in Madurai.

Anand K · Post by **Anand K** » 11 Oct 2013 17:01

I must add that what I found lacking... or distressing in Zaidi's book is the total lack of focus on the Hawala networks, the gargantuan black economy and the Pakistani narcotic "pipeline". Something like Napoleoni-didi or Ehrenfield-didi has done famously. Also, he has IMHO avoided naming some now-very-respectable names of the Gelf sheikhdoms who ran the gold and contraband smuggling in the 60s-70s. Without these dimensions, the story is actually incomplete.

Well, to be fair to him, he doesn't claim that this is the omnibus on Mumbai underworld....

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 15 Nov 2013 02:23

Pioneer: 15 Nov 2013

ISI printing fake notes outside Pak

ISI printing fake notes outside Pak
Friday, 15 November 2013 |

Rakesh K Singh | New Delhi

Pakistan’s ISI has diversified printing of fake Indian currency notes (FICN) to Malaysia and Singapore in its bid to deny involvement in the illegal trade.

The Pakistani agency is also using the fake currency to fund Naxal outfits and insurgent groups in the North-East.

Earlier, FICN was printed only in Lahore and Indian Intelligence agencies have gathered details of the location, the printing facility and the ISI and Pakistan Army officials running the show in Lahore.

India has also furnished dossiers along with satellite imageries of the site in Lahore to the Pakistani Government.

The Pakistani agency, in association with global terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, has set up FICN printing facilities in Malaysia and Singapore since these two countries, besides UAE and Nepal, are the major routes for movement of FICN.

Dawood, according to Intelligence agencies, is involved in the FICN distribution chain in a major way. Movement of FICN was earlier channeled through various indirect routes encompassing several countries and through different modes of transport.

Top Intelligence sources said the FICN printed in Singapore has high quality security features, including the security thread and watermark that can only be detected by sophisticated machines. Realising the magnitude of the problem, the Centre is examining proposals to incorporate seven more security features in the currency notes.

{Isnt't it a crime in Singapore to counterfeit or print other country's currency? Why not let the Singapore police take care of the counterfeit problem? Or is the purpose to alert TSP that GOI knows its operations!]

The revelations have come after sustained interrogation of terrorists Abdul Karim Tunda and Yasin Bhatkal. Tunda and Bhatkal have also revealed that FICN is being widely used by the ISI to fund insurgent groups in the North-East and Maoists.

The ISI has also developed an extensive network along the Indo-Nepal border with an estimated turnover of Rs200-crore in the region. This, besides the porous Indo-Nepal border, is also used to ship fake currency to the tune of about Rs2,000-crore to metropolitan cities like Kolkata and Mumbai and other places across the country.

The fakes are widely in circulation from Banke to Birta Mod in Nepal and Bahraich in UP to Siliguri in West Bengal on the Indian side.

Kathmandu has become a major hub of the FICN distribution network. The ISI’s hold in Kathmandu has been steadily growing from 2005 onwards, even as the network of sources and agents of Indian covert agencies has diminished due to a variety of reasons, sources admitted.

Indian agencies wielded considerable clout between 2001 and 2004 and gave a tough time to Pakistani agents in the Himalayan capital, they added.

{What is important about 2005? How and why didi India lose infleunce after that year?}

“Apart from implications for the national economy, FICN is also a widely-prevalent mode of terror financing. The highly-evolved networks in place for the movement of FICN and Hawala, act as infrastructure for gunrunning, transportation of explosives, provision of hideouts and communication channels for terrorists,” an Intelligence official said.

{So what are you doing about it? GOI has double handicapped itself with the police origins of RAW and having IB offiecers as its chiefs! All they think of is arresting criminals and not stopping counter-intelligence operations.}

The fakes reach Kathmandu via diplomatic cargo for the Pakistani mission and are distributed by undercover ISI agents to places like Bara, Birganj, Bhairhawa, Dhanusha, Kakadbhitha, Kanchanpur and Biratnagar. The fake currency is also brought in from Thailand to Kathmandu.

Nepal police’s report on interrogation of Tunda has a detailed district-wise list of the people involved in the FICN “trade” on both sides of the border.

Nepalese politicians including Ramchandra Pyasi, Sanjay Saha alias Sanjay Takla and Rameshwar Rai Yadav also figure in the list. Jainuddin Ansari of National Medical College, Birgunj (Nepal) also finds a mention in the list.

Pyasi, Takla and Yadav have been blacklisted by the Indian Embassy there, the sources said.

{Is this like muh kala kiya? Also why not pressure the Nepal to stop illegal activities against India from its own land? And how about shutting the Indian side criminals?}

Article looks like a press release to get mufat me publicity without doing real work.

Intelligence source looks like one from Encyclopedia Britanica order of listing of Intelligence.