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The team will hold a meeting with Dubai’s investigating agency to get information on the terror funding network of Dawood’s gang.
National Investigation Agency (NIA) has sent a five-member team to Dubai to dig into the terror financing network of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar as part of its wider crackdown on his syndicate.
Dawood is an accused in the 1993 serial Mumbai blasts case.
The five-member team comprises officials from the NIA, Intelligence Bureau (IB), Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), according to sources.
The team left for Dubai in United Arab Emirates (UAE) early on Saturday morning after it got several leads in the terror financing and drug smuggling case against Dawood and his cartel – referred to as D-Company.
In February last year, NIA registered a case against Dawood and several others and filed a chargesheet in November against him, his close aide Chhota Shakeel and three others in a terror case.
The case is related to a global terrorist network and a transnational organised crime syndicate, namely D-Company, which is involved in various terrorist and criminal activities in India, the agency said.
The NIA team will hold a meeting with Dubai’s investigating agency to get information on the terror funding network of the D-gang.
NIA probe has established that D-Company – a terrorist gang and an organized crime syndicate – conspired to further the criminal activities of the gang by carrying out various types of unlawful activities.
D-Company raised, collected and extorted huge amounts of money by threatening and by putting people in fear of death or grievous hurt, for the group or for the benefit of an individual terrorist in the instant case, and with the intention to threaten the security of India and create terror in the minds of the general public, said NIA.
“NIA probe also established that the three arrested accused – Arif Abubkar Shaikh, Shabir Abubakar Shaikh and Mohammad Salim Qureshi – had received huge amounts of money through hawala channels, from the absconding or wanted accused based in abroad, meant for triggering sensational terrorist/criminal acts) in Mumbai and other parts of India to create terror in the minds of people. The accused persons were holding/in possession of the said ‘proceeds of terrorism’,” the NIA had said.
