From don to druglord: Dawood gets a career change
Sumon K Chakrabarti / CNN-IBN
Published on Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 19:59
New Delhi: Dawood Ibrahim was branded a global terrorist by the US in 2003. Interpol says that he is a part of the worldwide terror syndicate of Osama bin Ladens al-Qaeda.
However, despite restrictions and embargoes issued on him, Dawood Ibrahim has time and again managed to travel outside his hideout in Pakistan with several passports issued by various countries.
His business has also expanded beyond Karachi and the Gulf countries.
The don has spread his wings across continents from South East Asia to Europe to Africa, from real-estate to cricket betting to shipping, gun-running and narcotics, Dawood runs all kinds of 'businesses'.
Indian intelligence sources indicate that Dawood has an investment running into $700 million, equivalent of about Rs 30 billion.
He earns nearly about Rs 150 crore every year from selling gutkha (chewing tobacco) in Pakistan.
And in Dubai, Dawood enjoys special access. He receives VIP treatment at the Dubai airport, where he is whisked away from the tarmac without any immigration formalities. In Dubai, Dawood is involved in the hotel and gold business and real estate, apart from laundering drug money. He owns at least 53 business ventures in the Gulf country.
And Dawood has now moved beyond his territory. He is investing in the flourishing hotel industry in Zanzibar Islands in Tanzania, apart from trafficking in narcotics and illegal arms.
Sources say that he has also invested in a Pakistani-owned textile company in Tanzania, which has come under the scanner for funding terrorist organsations.
drugs across Europe
- In South Africa, he has set up his base to smuggle drugs to Europe.
- In Kenya, Dawood has invested at least 10 million USD in the hotel industry.
- In Nepal, dawood is reported to have invested in a top television Network, a leading airline company and one of the five biggest hotels in Kathmandu.
- In Thailand and Hong Kong, Dawood is now increasing his drug trafficking business through underground Chinese groups and cheap Chinese arms are smuggled to the Western countries in four ships that he owns.
- In London, he uses two nightclubs in Birmingham to distribute
But this impressive multinational presence is a pointer of the direction in which Dawood's business has been moving over the past few years the drug trade. Intelligence agencies across the world are branding him the biggest druglord ever.
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Ndugu zangu hii nchi imeshaposwa inangojea mwenyewe aje kuchukua chake?
Haiingii akilini kukuta ghaidi kama huyu anapokelewa kama mwekezaji?
habari mheshimiwa....Hii iingizwe ktk maajabu ya dunia,na hii ni nambari one.
swali?
1.kwanini amewekeza zanzibar na siyo bara?
2.tukisema zanzibar wanahifadhi au kupromote magaidi kama kule comoro,tunakosea?
3.why zenj inakuwa na uzalendo sana na nchi za kiarabu kuliko watz wenzao(wabara)?
4.hatuoni incidents kama hizi ni cheche tosha za wandugu hawa kutaka/kushawishi kujitoa ktk MUUNGANO ili waendeleze agenda zao?
Natia hoja!!!
Hii iingizwe ktk maajabu ya dunia,na hii ni nambari one.
swali?
1.kwanini amewekeza zanzibar na siyo bara?
2.tukisema zanzibar wanahifadhi au kupromote magaidi kama kule comoro,tunakosea?
3.why zenj inakuwa na uzalendo sana na nchi za kiarabu kuliko watz wenzao(wabara)?
4.hatuoni incidents kama hizi ni cheche tosha za wandugu hawa kutaka/kushawishi kujitoa ktk MUUNGANO ili waendeleze agenda zao?
Natia hoja!!!
habari mheshimiwa....
1.kwanini amewekeza zanzibar na siyo bara?, nijuavyo mimi kiwanda cha textile cha Wapakistani kipo Dar es salaam kwa hiyo amewekeza Tanzania bara pia kama itakuwa ni sahihi kuwa kinamuhusu.
Hapa najaribu kuonesha kwamba kama kuna uzembe umefanyika kumkaraibisha huyo mshutumiwa huenda ukawa hauna uhusiano na hilo ulilo comment.
2.tukisema zanzibar wanahifadhi au kupromote magaidi kama kule comoro,tunakosea?yes ,itakuwa munakosea ikiwa hakuna ushahidi wa hilo.Ukitoa mfano wa yule kijana detained in Guantanamo, utapewa mfano wa John Walker wa UK aliyekamatwa Afghanistan lakini Uk haishutumiwi hivyo.
why zenj inakuwa na uzalendo sana na nchi za kiarabu kuliko watz wenzao(wabara)?,hili si kosa ikiwa hawavunji taratibu husika,waarabu walitawala kule,waliacha vizazi hivyo baadhi ni ndugu wa damu,wanasaidiana n.k generally kuwa na uhusiano na nchi za kiarabu ambazo zatambulika na UN ni katika taratibu za kawaida,au tunaposema wawekezaji waje Tz huwa tuna exclude Arabs????
4.hatuoni incidents kama hizi ni cheche tosha za wandugu hawa kutaka/kushawishi kujitoa ktk MUUNGANO ili waendeleze agenda zao?,hii ni comment yako tena kali saana kwa dalili dhaifu.
sorry 4 any mistake,
Ila ni kujaribu kuondoa tashuwishi za biasness ambazo huenda zikatufikisha pasipofaa.
thanx mkuu.
"Foreign companies need their profits, they would not invest without them"...But in the end, the bullets must decide, not ballot...angekuwa kaandikwa kwenye The Guardian ya Uk kwamba mwekezaji ni gaidi, tungekuali lakini kwa kuwa utafiti umefanywa na Kakalende wacha upite kama hadithi za kale!!
Dawood IbrahimFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Wanted Dawood Ibrahim by Interpol
- Born December 31, 1955 (1955-12-31) (age 52), Ratnagiri, Maharashtra India
- Occupation Drug smuggler, Money launderer, Underworld Don, Crime Boss
Dawood Ibrahim, also known as Dawood Ebrahim, and Sheikh Dawood Hassan, birth name Sheikh Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, is the head of the organized crime syndicate D-Company in Mumbai. He is currently on the wanted list of Interpol for organised crime and counterfeiting.
Ibrahim is accused of heading a vast and sprawling illegal empire. His name has become a byword in political, business and law enforcement circles. After the Bombay Blasts in 1993, which Ibrahim organized and financed, he became India's most wanted man. After that incident, most of the his key Hindu mobsters and even few Muslims went against him bringing down his empire. In 2003, the United States Government declared Dawood Ibrahim a "Global Terrorist" and pursued the matter before the United Nations in an attempt to freeze his assets around the world and crack down on his operations after significant diplomatic lobbying by the government of India. The Bush Administration, under advisement from the Indian Government, has imposed sanctions on Ibrahim. Although Pakistan denies any knowledge of his existence, Indian intelligence agencies, such as Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), believe that Dawood currently resides in Karachi. Ibrahim is also alleged to have close links with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
"Foreign companies need their profits, they would not invest without them"...But in the end, the bullets must decide, not ballot...angekuwa kaandikwa kwenye The Guardian ya Uk kwamba mwekezaji ni gaidi, tungekuali lakini kwa kuwa utafiti umefanywa na Kakalende wacha upite kama hadithi za kale!!
Investor with suspected terrorist links under probe
THISDAY REPORTER
Dar es Salaam
THE Police Force is investigating reports that a man from the Comoro Islands masquerading as a foreign investor in the country has possible links to the worlds notorious terrorist organization, al-Qaeda, it has been learnt.
Well-placed sources say the suspect (name withheld) was secretly working in Tanzania as an al-Qaeda representative on the disguise of being a bona fide investor.
It is further claimed that the individual has a close relationship with the al-Qaeda East Africa linkman and suspected mastermind of the August 7, 1998, bombing of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, Fazul Abdul Mohammed, who recently escaped a security dragnet to arrest him in the Kenyan coastal town of Malindi last August.
It is understood that Kenyan security forces have already alerted their Tanzanian counterparts that Fazul could sneak into Tanzania and fears were rife that the suspect could enter the country and unleash terror plots similar to the August 7, 1998, twin bomb blasts in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.
Fazul has been indicted for the 1998 embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, which killed a total of 224 people. He is also believed to have been the linchpin in the 2002 Mombasa attacks, in which 16 people died.
Sources say the investor in question from the tiny Indian Ocean nation, who works under his brother residing in Malindi, Kenya, is closely associated with the wanted terrorist (Fazul).
The Malindi-based al-Qaeda man from the Comoros is said to be one of the key operatives of the al-Qaeda network in East Africa and is described as a smooth operator who owns a number of companies.
Sources say that the two Comorian brothers speak fluent Arabic, Kiswahili, English and French.
It is further alleged that as an assistant to his Malindi-based brother, the terrorist investor based in Tanzania owns at least seven companies in the country, which deal with the extraction of natural resources.
The same individual has also been linked with poaching activities with the aim of raising illegal funds to finance terrorist operations in the East African region and recruit new followers.
It has also been revealed that the suspected terrorist investor has been working with Tanzanian businessmen knowingly or otherwise in illegal activities.
Tanzania has increasingly become the focus of attention for terrorists because of the countrys strong relationship with the West, particularly the United States, which culminated in (US) President George Bush making a historic visit to Tanzania in February this year, said a source familiar with the reports.
In his visit to Tanzania, President Bush signed the largest US financial support to the country, targeting infectious diseases and economic development projects in the sub-Saharan single nation.
Bushs four-day visit to Tanzania � the longest stay by any sitting US president in an African country - was highlighted by the signing of a massive $700m support package under the Millennium Challenge Compact (MCC).
Prior to the Bush visit, police arrested five people in Tanzania suspected of involvement in terrorist activities.
Insiders say the alleged terrorist investor now operating in Tanzania has companies operating in Dar es Salaam, Mbeya, Tanga, Mwanza and Mara Regions.
There is an intricate web of informers under his payroll ... He has also been employing foreigners in his companies without following proper immigration procedures, said one of our sources.
He added: In his companies, he has foreign employees from the Comoros, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Yemen, Iran, Pakistan and India -- some of whom are working illegally.
Sources say the individual was using the legally-registered companies as a front for his alleged terrorist activities in Tanzania and elsewhere in the region.
The Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Commissioner of Police Robert Manumba, said he was personally not aware of the reports of the alleged terrorist investor.
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