London, Feb 3: India’s most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim has been linked to a series of properties across Britain, according to a media
report 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 match-fixing 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 Times reported.
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 claimed his syndicate, known as D-Company, once smuggled drugs through Pakistan and across Indian borders for shipment to Europe and North America from the ports at Mumbai, as portrayed in a new BBC series ‘McMafia’. Ibrahim, believed to be hiding in Pakistan, is the inspiration behind an Indian underworld don named “Dilly Mahmood” in the eight-part television series, which highlights the misuse of Britain by globally organised crime syndicates.
“Britain features in his (Ibrahim’s) criminal world as a place where he can launder money – a classic ‘McMafia’ tactic. He is thought to have property interests in a variety of southern English counties like Essex and Kent,” Misha Glenny, who wrote the non-fiction book McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld and is an executive producer on the TV series, told the newspaper.
PTI
