Agencies trail Dawood Ibrahim‘s brother Anees for striking drug deals in India via Dubai.
India’s most wished fugitive Dawood Ibrahim’s youthful brother and accused in the Mumbai serial blasts, Anees Ibrahim is underneath the lens of Indian safety businesses for his involvement in smuggling and manufacturing of contraband narcotics.
Anees Ibrahim’s shut aide Kailash Rajput, a excessive profile drug operator based mostly in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is already on the wished record of Mumbai Police and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), for smuggling medication from India, extremely positioned sources advised IANS on Tuesday.
Sources mentioned Anees Ibrahim’s linkages with a drug syndicate working in South Mumbai got here to gentle when his aide Arif Bhujwala was arrested by the NCB earlier this yr from Raigarh in Maharashtra.
“During questioning of Arif Bhujwala, it was revealed that he was in touch with Kailash Rajput, an alleged financier of Anees Ibrahim, who also looks after the D-company’s drug operation in Europe. Kailash Rajput’s location has been traced in Dubai by our agencies,” mentioned an officer related to investigations.
Based on particular inputs of intelligence businesses, the NCB has been trailing D-company’s drug operators in India. The Bureau hit the jackpot when its sleuths busted a drug manufacturing facility in South Mumbai, reportedly run by Dawood’s aide Chinku Pathan in the third week of January this yr. After Pathan’s questioning, the sleuths arrested key drug operator Arif Bhujwala, linked with Anees Ibrahim. Bhujwala disclosed that he had earlier visited Dubai, the place he met Anees Ibrahim’s financier Kailash Rajput.
A report of Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of Mumbai Police reveals that Kailash Rajput has hyperlinks with Mexican cartel and had been concerned in smuggling large consignments of medication like Phenethyl-4-Piperidone and Fentanyl from India.
The report says that in 2019, a rice exporter was interrogated by the ANC who later revealed that in a vacation journey to Dubai in November 2018, he was launched to Kailash Rajput. Through this exporter, Kailash Rajput tried to smuggle a cargo of medication from Mumbai, which was to be pushed to Mexico.
Dossier on Kailash Rajput says that he fled to Dubai in 2014 and later got here into contact with Anees Ibrahim, who’s at the moment based mostly in Karachi.
A significant shift in D-company, sources mentioned, is that earlier such underworld operations have been straight checked out by Chhota Shakeel.
But not too long ago Anees Ibrahim, who handles the finance of D-company, additionally takes care of drug operations.
Sources mentioned Anees Ibrahim’s operatives are additionally based mostly in Germany, Netherlands and Britain, who take care of the profitable drug deals of D-company.
Earlier, Dawood’s proper hand man, Iqbal Mirchi was reportedly incharge of Dawood’s drug operations in Europe.
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