Agency says Arif and Shabbir are involved in illegal activities and terror financing
Agency says Arif and Shabbir are involved in illegal activities and terror financing
National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested two alleged members of Mumbai illegal dawood ibrahim gang, The two have been identified as Arif Abubakar Shaikh and Shabbir Abubakar Shaikh.
The case was registered by the NIA in February suo moto Considering. It alleged that both were involved in illegal activities of ‘D-Company’ and terror financing in the western suburbs of Mumbai.
they . are close associates of Chhota ShakeelWhich operates an international criminal syndicate from Pakistan and is involved in extortion, drug trafficking and terrorist activities in India, the agency said.
The case pertains to the activities of D-Company’s international terror network involving Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and his associates including Haji Anees alias Anees Ibrahim Sheikh, Chhota Shakeel, Javed Chikna and Tiger Memon.
The syndicate is involved in arms smuggling, narco-terrorism, money laundering and counterfeit currency. Its members “are in unauthorized possession or are involved in the acquisition of major assets to raise terror funds and are operating in active cooperation with international terrorist organizations including Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Al-Qaeda. ”
Raids at 20 places
On May 9, the NIA raided 20 locations linked to Ibrahim and his close associates in Mumbai. The agency took into custody Salim Qureshi alias Salim Fruit, an aide of the arrested gangster Shakeel. According to an NIA statement, “Several hawala operators and drug peddlers were linked to Ibrahim and were registered by the NIA. [a case] In this regard in February.”
This is the same case under which Nationalist Congress Party leader Nawab Malik was arrested and is currently in jail. The NIA has on February 3, 2022, criminal conspiracy and under sections 17 (punishment for raising funds for acts of terrorism), 18 (punishment for conspiracy), 20 (punishment for being a member of a terrorist gang or organization), 21 (punishment). FIR was registered. For possessing proceeds of an offense of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act), 38 (offences relating to membership of a terrorist organisation) and 40 (offences of raising funds for a terrorist organisation).
The FIR names Ibrahim, Anees, Shakeel, Chikna and Menon. It mentions that Ibrahim left India and started controlling his criminal activities in India through his sister Haseena Parkar and others.