Dawood linked to list of British properties
He has assets across Spain, Morocco, Turkey, Oz, UAE also
India’s most-wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim has been linked to a series of properties across Britain, according to a media report on Saturday.
The 62-year-old fugitive mafia boss, wanted in India as the mastermind of the Mumbai bomb blasts in 1993 and accused of crimes such as matchfixing and extortion, accrued a vast property portfolio across the Midlands and south-east in the UK as well as India, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Morocco, Turkey, Cyprus and Australia, the report said.
The newspaper matched details from a dossier prepared by Indian authorities to records held by the UK’s Companies House and the Land Registry, as well as the Panama Papers to form a snapshot of the alleged property portfolio.
It is claimedhis syndicate, known as DCompany, once smuggled drugs through Pakistan and across Indian borders for shipment to Europe and North America from
Ibrahim, who has an Interpol red notice against him, has been on the UK Treasury sanctions list for years with three recorded addresses in Pakistan.
The gangster’s place of birth is recorded as Kher, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, and his nationality is listed as “Indian” with a recorded Indian passport, which was subsequently revoked by the government of India. the ports at Mumbai, as interests in a variety of portrayed in a new BBC southern English counties series ‘McMafia’. like Essex and Kent,”
Ibrahim, believed to be Misha Glenny, who wrote hiding in Pakistan, is the the non-fiction book inspiration behind an McMafia: A Journey Indian underworld don Through the Global named “Dilly Mahmood” Criminal Underworld and in the eight-part television is an executive producer series, which highlights on the TV series, told the the misuse of newspaper. Britain by globally organised “But we can’t know for crime syndicates. certain because the government
“Britain features in his has been dragging (Ibrahim’s) criminal its heels in legislating world as a place where he to force transparency can launder money a classic of the beneficial owners ‘McMafia’ tactic. He is of companies registered thought to have property in our overseas territories,” she noted.
In an apparent parallel with Ibrahim, Dilly Mahmood is portrayed as an ambitious gangster rising from a modest background to dominate the black market in Mumbai in the series.
Documents seen by this newspaper also allege that on Ibrahim’s behalf his right-handman, Muhammed Iqbal “Mirchi” Memon, accrued a vast property portfolio in the UK which includes hotels, mansions, tower blocks and houses in suburbs in the south-east of England.
Memon, also a suspect in the 1993 Mumbai attacks, had sought refuge in London after the blasts and attempts to extradite him to India had failed.
He was never convicted of any crimes and denied his involvement in Ibrahim’s cartel. Memon, who held 11 company directorships in tiling, construction and lettings firms in Britain, died after suffering a heart attack in London in 2013.
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