LeT operative’s arrest brings to fore D-Company’s terror links

Hindustan Times
May 14, 2018

Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad arrested Faisal from Jogeshwari (West) based on a tip-off from the Kolkata Special Task Force.


The arrest of 32-year-old Faisal Hasan Mirza has once again put a spotlight Dawood Ibrahim and his D-Company’s links to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the dreaded terrorist outfit run by Hafiz Saeed.
Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad arrested Faisal from Jogeshwari (West) based on a tip-off from the Kolkata Special Task Force which alleges that Faisal’s distant relative Farooque Devadiwala, a lieutenant of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, had provided Faisal the logistics, including money and airline tickets, to travel between India,Dubai and Karachi.
Mirza was in constant touch with Devadiwala, who is based in Sharjah, UAE. Devadiwala was allegedly providing logistic support to push Indian youth to join Lashkar-e Taiba (LeT). He is in direct contact with the Indian Mujahideen co-founder Amir Reza Khan, who made arrangements for Indian youth to arrive in Karachi.
During the police interrogation, Mirza has allegedly confessed that Devadiwala had booked his ticket for Nairobi via Pakistan from Dubai two months ago. Mirza was instructed to get off at Karachi where an ISI agent would pick him up, an ATS official revealed. After arriving in Pakistan, Mirza was reportedly taken to a training camp by the ISI agent.
This is not the first time that D-Company has been linked to the terror outfit. One of the first ever instances that linked Dawood’s operations to terror outfits, was the kidnapping of the owner of Khadim Shoes, Partha Roy Burman, in 2002 by Asif Raza Khan.
A ransom amount of ₹3.5 crore was paid to secure Burman’s release. The money reached Mohammed Atta, the man responsible for the September 11, 2001 terror attack in the United States of America , through a Dawood-controlled hawala operator, Abdul Karimuddin in Hyderabad. Karimuddin reportedly sent the money through his channels in Dubai, to Pakistan.
Raza Khan, who was killed in an encounter in Gujarat in 2002, had earlier revealed the details of the kidnapping and his association with Atta after he was arrested. More recently, during investigations, the imprint of D-Company reflected in the July 13, 2011 serial blasts in Mumbai. Police sources claimed that a sum of ₹10 lakh was sent by Muzzafar Kola to Yasin Bhatkal through a Delhi-based hawala operator Kanwar Nain Pathrija.
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) was appraised of Dawood’s extensive hawala network in the Middle-East and South Asian countries, following which, a detailed probe was undertaken by the Anti-Money Laundering / Suspicious Cases Unit (AMLU) in Middle-Eastern countries to crack down on D-Company’s money laundering network, added official sources privy to the investigation material.
Reference:- https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai-news/let-operative-s-arrest-brings-to-fore-d-company-s-terror-links/story-W1VDnDBjq7asLco9UOjATO.html

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