India seems to be inching closer to capturing Dawood Ibrahim the alleged mastermind behind the 1993 blasts in India. The United Kingdom government has confiscated the property owned by Dawood Ibrahim. The assets which have been frozen include the terror don’s properties in Midlands. Dawood owns a hotel in Warwickshire and other residential properties across the Midlands.
In 2015, India had handed over a dossier to the UK on Dawood. The same year, Enforcement Directorate officials had visited the Midlands to identify and seize the Mumbai serial blasts mastermind’s UK assets.
Dawood is the main accused in the 1993 serial blasts case in which around 260 people were killed. He fled the country post the bombings and is understood to be hiding in Pakistan.
Pakistan has repeatedly denied his presence in the country. His 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 and then goes on to list a string of Indian and Pakistani passports acquired by him and misused.
“Father’s name is Sheikh Ibrahim Ali Kaskar, Mother’s name is Amina Bi, Wife’s name is Mehjabeen Shaikh. Also referred to as Hizrat and Mucchad,” the listing on Ibrahim, first made on November 7, 2003, notes.
On August 22, 2017, it was reported that Ibrahim remains the only “Indian national” on an updated list of financial sanctions released by the UK which also listed 21 aliases for the underworld don.
The mafia boss appears on the UK Treasury department’s ‘Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets in the UK’ updated on August 21, 2017, with three recorded addresses in Pakistan, where he is reportedly based.
In January this year, some unconfirmed reports had said that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government may also have moved to seize assets of 1993 Mumbai blasts mastermind Dawood Ibrahim, on its soil.
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