Politicians in BD helped Daud spread crime web

[third eye]

Another link established...is RAW doing wrong by being ' active ".. ?


The Daily Star - Details News

Another aide to the mafia don arrested

Detectives have found some political leaders and influential people in Bangladesh to have close relations with international mafia don Daud Ibrahim.

The police suspect the influential people maintain close link with Daud to get his support in expanding their businesses in Dubai, a stronghold of the Mumbai-based mafia don.

"The names of a number of political leaders and influential people surfaced during interrogation of two detained accomplices of Daud. We're now verifying what kinds of relations they maintain with him," Deputy Commissioner (DC) Monirul Islam of Detective Branch (DB) told The Daily Star.

He however refused to reveal the names and identities of the influential people at this stage of investigation.

Meanwhile, the detectives arrested another accomplice of Daud Indian national Arif Hossain at Krishi Market in Mohammadpur in the city Saturday night.

The police have so far arrested three of Daud's accomplices since May 27 who are either convicted or accused in criminal cases including for murders.

The police claim they came to Bangladesh to accomplish the gang's long-term assignment, but the arrestees say they were just hiding here.

DB sources say the arrested Indian criminals came to Bangladesh at the directive of Chhota Shakil, who is next to Daud Ibrahim. The sources add Shakil handles his network in Bangladesh over cellphone so tactfully that his operatives here even don't know each other.


A DB team raided the Krishi Market area after squeezing information out of detained Abdul Rauf Daud Merchant and Zahid Sheikh and arrested Arif.

During interrogation at the DB office on Minto Road, Arif said Chhota Shakil sent him Tk 1.5 lakh through Western Union last week to provide legal support to Rauf and Zahid, sources say.

The sources also say Shakil was keeping regular contact with Arif over cellphone to discuss means to free Rauf and Zahid on bail.

Arif was running a meat shop at Krishi Market since he came to Bangladesh and residing at a rented house in Mohammadpur Housing Society.

He told The Daily Star at the DB office that he is accused and arrested in connection with a murder in India. Sakil sent him to Bangladesh in 2001 as he was freed on bail in 2000 after serving around seven years behind bars.

"I received Tk 10,000 per month but after my marriage I am receiving Tk 16,000. In this country I was registered as a voter and was living here as a stranded Birhari."

Arif admitted without hesitation that he and another gangster gunned down Amar Sohana Bhaskar Shethe in Mumbai in 1993 at the directive of Shakil as Shethe allegedly led the damage to the historic Babri Mosque.

He said he was arrested the same year in connection with that murder.

Arif married a Bangladeshi national and the couple has two daughters, he said, adding they are trying to settle in Bangladesh by becoming citizens on Shakil's instruction.

REMAND
DB sources say they produced Adul Rauf, Zahid and their Bangladeshi host Kamal with a prayer for 10 days' remand on completion of earlier eight-day remand yesterday.

The court however granted six days' remand for Rauf and Zahid and another five days for Arif.

DC Monirul said, "I got some ring from Indian cellphone numbers and an ADC received an SMS from a Bangladeshi cellphone number threatening him not to proceed with the matter of Daud Imrahim's aides."

 

[third eye]

:: bdnews24.com ::

'Ibrahim's Bangladesh recruiter' grilled

Dhaka, June 7 (bdnews24.com)—A Dhaka court on Sunday gave the police seven days to question Arif Hossain, arrested the day before as a suspected recruiter for India's most notorious underworld figure Dawood Ibrahim.

The Detective Branch of police also remanded convicted Indian felon Abdur Rouf Dawood Merchant and his two associates for another six days at the end of their eight-day remand.

DB police last month picked up Merchant, hiding out in Bangladesh, and his two associates Indian Zahid Sheikh and Bangladeshi Kamal Mia.

Merchant was convicted and sentenced by an Indian court in 2001 for murdering Mumbai music director Gulshan Kumar.

Metropolitan magistrate Tania Kamal remanded Arif Hossain in a case filed under the Foreigners Act after his arrest on Saturday, for illegal entry and stay in Bangladesh.

Advocate Hemayetuddin Khan Hiran made a plea for Arif's bail, which the court rejected.

Police said Arif is a close associate of Zahid Sheikh and maintains contact with Dawood Ibrahim. Arif came to Bangladesh to facilitate Dawood's criminal activities.

He needed to be grilled for information about his associates, the police added in the remand prayer.

Besides, they said, he could lead them to hideouts during the hunt for his cohorts.

DB inspector Ashraf Hossain has been appointed investigating officer in the case.

The same IO, after eight days' interrogation of Dawood Merchant and Zahid Sheikh, for illegal entry and stay in Bangladesh with fake passports, and of Kamal Mia for sheltering Merchant, produced them on Sunday in the metropolitan magistrate's court requesting fresh remand.

The court granted the DB six days for grilling the three for a second spell under the Passport Act and Foreigners Act.

Arif arrest

Forty-year old Arif was arrested at a house near Mohammadpur Krishi Market, where he has been living since 2001.

Additional deputy police commissioner Mahbub Alam of the DB told bdnews24.com that Arif had been hiding in Dhaka since the murder of Bhaskar Shethi, a Mumbai businessman.

At noon, Arif was presented before reporters. He confessed to murdering Shethi and said as soon as he had got bail in the case in 2001, he escaped to Bangladesh.

He had worked as a butcher at the Mohammedpur Krishi Market and he got enrolled as a voter too posing as a Bihari, Arif said.

Ibrahim's 'recruiter'

Police said since arriving in Dhaka, Arif operated under Chhota Shakil, the sword arm of Indian-born Karachi-based crime kingpin Dawood Ibrahim, and started recruiting terrorists as other cohorts arrived later.

Arif married a woman in Bhola and they had a child. He did no work or business here but would receive Tk 16,000 every month from Mumbai, said ADC Mahbub Alam.

After the arrest of Merchant and his associates, Arif has been contacting various places for legal assistance to release them.

He was also in regular touch with Ibrahim's Chhota Shakil, the police official said.

India's best-known underworld figure, Ibrahim, now based in Pakistan, is widely accused of heading a vast organised crime network smuggling arms and narcotics, money laundering and counterfeiting.

He is also thought to have masterminded the 1993 Mumbai bombings.

Classed by the US as a 'global terrorist', he is also wanted by Interpol, which issued a 'special notice' in 2006, circulated to UN member nations with details of Dawood's 11 passports and 16 aliases.

Ibrahim came in at No. 4 on the Forbes' World's Top 10 most dreaded criminals list of 2008.

 

[TopCat]

Another link established...is RAW doing wrong by being ' active ".. ?

What is that mean? Those arrest had nothing to do with RAW. They got caught while trying to make a BD passport.
I saw in the TV and those people could speak fairly good Bangla which made them undetectable to anybody.

 

[idune]

Question is why India released Daud sidekicks and made way for them to flee? One should not be surprised on seeing how RAW could be involved sending these criminals into Bangladesh. Only to advance sinister campaign that Bangladesh and/or person(s) in Bangladesh involved with these criminals.

Be mindful there are hundreds of Bangladeshi criminals lives in India under active patronage RAW and indian govt. example, Joinal Hazari a criminal mastermind who killed many people, lived in India for 5 years.

 

[third eye]

Question is why India released Daud sidekicks and made way for them to flee? One should not be surprised on seeing how RAW could be involved sending these criminals into Bangladesh. Only to advance sinister campaign that Bangladesh and/or person(s) in Bangladesh involved with these criminals.

Forty-year old Arif was arrested at a house near Mohammadpur Krishi Market, where he has been living since 2001.

Additional deputy police commissioner Mahbub Alam of the DB told bdnews24.com that Arif had been hiding in Dhaka since the murder of Bhaskar Shethi, a Mumbai businessman.

At noon, Arif was presented before reporters. He confessed to murdering Shethi and said as soon as he had got bail in the case in 2001, he escaped to Bangladesh.


Be mindful there are hundreds of Bangladeshi criminals lives in India under active patronage RAW and indian govt. example, Joinal Hazari a criminal mastermind who killed many people, lived in India for 5 years.

Where is he now ?

 

[third eye]

Getting interesting now.....

The Daily Star - Details News

Daud's agents received money from Pakistan

Detectives have found a good deal of money transactions from Pakistan to the arrested accomplices of underworld crime boss Daud Ibrahim through Western Union Money Transfer.

Investigation Officer (IO) of the case Inspector Mohammad Ashraf Hossain said one Fahim Mach Mach alias FM had recently sent Tk 1.5 lakh to National Bank, Mohammadpur branch. Abdul Rouf Daud Merchant, Zahid and Arif Hossain used to collect the money on monthly basis, he added.

Assistant Commissioner (AC) Mohammad Mohibul Islam Khan of Detective Branch (DB) of police told The Daily Star that they would officially send letters to National Bank and Western Union to provide the names of people who received the money.

AC Mohibul said Daud Ibrahim and Chhota Shakil had been trying to establish their stronghold in Bangladesh after their crime empires in India, Pakistan, Dubai and Iran.

IO Asharaf said they are investigating whether the employees of Western Union Money Transfer and National Bank had any link with the gang while disbursing the amounts.

However, quoting bank sources he said they disbursed the money after identifying the men concerned by examining their national identity cards.

The IO said they had submitted a prayer to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner for transferring the four arrestees including Kamal to the Task Force for Interrogation (TFI) cell.

With the latest arrest of Arif the DB has so far arrested three Indian nationals and their Bangladeshi host Kamal.

 

[leonblack08]

Where is he now ?

If you are asking about jainal Hajari Then listen,as soon as AL govt. came to power,he is back to BD and is in full form.Continuing his rampage and the authority turning a blind eye to his deeds,even releasing him from one of the cases against him.

 

[aonjon]

And politicians in IND helped spread web of terrorism in South Asian sub-continent. Not a single country has been spared from this vile disease IND politicians have created, and of course they're finally ripping what they sowed. I do hope you IND's enjoy the fruits of your own labor!