The
United States has placed sanctions on two top Indian aides of former Mumbai
underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. The Treasury Department has
named Chhota Shakeel and Ibrahim "Tiger" Memon as key drug
traffickers. The move is aimed at freezing their assets and curbing their
access to global business and finance networks. Dawood Ibrahim is accused of
smuggling narcotics from Afghanistan and Thailand to the US, Europe, the Middle
East, Latin America and Africa. He was named a "global terrorist" in
October 2003, and in June 2006, he was named by the US president as a
"foreign narcotics trafficker". The Treasury
Department says
Shakeel and Memon are "key lieutenants" of Ibrahim in his notorious
"D Company".
"Chhota Shakeel is Dawood's lieutenant who coordinates for D Company with
other organised crime and terror groups. "Ibrahim "Tiger" Memon
is a trusted lieutenant who controls the organisation's businesses across South
Asia and is wanted by Indian authorities for his involvement in the 1993 Mumbai
bombings." Dawood Ibrahim is a "most wanted man" in India, which
alleges that he is sheltering in the Pakistani city of Karachi. Pakistan denies
the charge. Delhi has charged him with masterminding the 1993 Mumbai serial
bombings in which 257 people died and more than 700 others were wounded.
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