NSW Police and the AFP (assuming intelligence is shared) were also made aware that there was
Despite all this ,Dawood Ibrahim's interests in Australia seem to have been ignored, even if the AFP kept a close watch on his rival , Chota Rajan aka Ranjendra Sadashiv Nikalje(see story below).
Indian alleged mobster who lived in Australia, was arrested in Bali after being on the run for 20 years
Ranjendra
Sadashiv Nikalje, who was wanted by Intertpol for year,s was arrested
on Sunday as he arrived in Bali on a Garuda flight from Sydney,
Australia.
- Cindy Wockner and Komang Erviani
- News Corp Australia Network
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INDIAN alleged mobster’s 20 years on the run, most recently living in
Australia, ended on the weekend when his plane touched down in Bali.
He
was planning a 15-day stay on the holiday island. But now he is in a
jail cell at Denpasar police station, nabbed as he left the plane which
had flown him from Sydney to Bali.
The alleged boss of one of India’s major crime syndicates has been living quietly in Australia now for quite some time.
His
charmed life, evading authorities across South East Asia for years,
including a daring escape from a Bangkok hospital after he almost died,
came to an end when last month he was identified living in our midst.
Australian
Federal Police notified their Indian counterparts that the man using
the name Kumar Mohan was in fact one of their most wanted — Ranjendra
Sadashiv Nikalje also known as Chotta Rajan or Little Rajan or Nana —
who is accused of involvement in more than 20 murders and a string of
crimes.
Nikalje was arrested about 1.50pm Bali time on Sunday after arriving on a Garuda flight from Sydney.
Denpasar
police general crime chief, Reinhard Habonaran Nainggolan, said
authorities in Indonesia had been told he was alleged to have
masterminded 15-25 murders in India.
He said local police were now co-ordinating with police headquarters in Jakarta about the process for extradition back to India.
Living it up ... Ranjendra Sadashiv Nikalje was on the way to Bali, Indonesia.Source:Supplied
Nikalje
has been on the run from authorities since about 1995 and was wanted on
an Interpol Red Notice. However, as a Red Notice, is not an arrest
warrant under Australian law he could not be arrested in Australia.
Indonesian Interpol says the Red notice was issued in July 1995.
Nikalje’s
Wikipedia entry claims that he began his criminal career scalping
cinema tickets and went on to become a lieutenant of another gangster,
the leader of the notorious D-Company crime gang.
The pair went
separate ways in 1996 and in 1988 Nikalje is said to have fled to Dubai,
where he allegedly continued to operate and pull the strings of his
crime syndicate.
He then turned up in Thailand where his
adversaries tracked him down and attempted to kill him, succeeding in
gunning down his aides. In a Bangkok hospital after the attempt on his
life and as Indian police put in place moves for his extradition, he is
said to have escaped after bribing hospital staff.
He reportedly now suffers diabetes and requires kidney dialysis.
An
Australian Federal Police spokesman said that in September this year
the AFP had confirmed that Nikalje was living in Australia under another
name and advised the Indian authorities and Interpol.
On Sunday Nikalje left Australia bound for Bali.
Interpol in Canberra alerted the Indonesian authorities who arrested him, at the request of India, when the plane landed.
Dawood Ibrahim's many lives
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The
CBI's success with Abu Salem, a one-time key operative of the infamous
D-company, has brought the focus back on Dawood Ibrahim, the criminal
extraordinaire and prime accused in the Mumbai serial bomb blasts case.
Dawood is learnt to have literally put on a new face, thanks to
plastic surgery to escape the prying eyes of the International Criminal
Police Organization after Washington declared him a "global terrorist".
The
US prompted the United Nations also into listing Dawood as a "global
terrorist". While US order froze all assets belonging to him within the
US and prohibited US nationals from transacting with him, the UN listing
required that all UN member-states take similar actions. Dawood who
lived in "style" in a posh locale of Karachi under the protection of the
Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), is now desperately looking
for a "safer hideout" outside Pakistan.
It
is believed that Dawood is now sharing his smuggling routes with
Osama-bin-Laden's terrorist outfit al-Qaeda and funding attacks by
Islamic extremists aimed at destabilising India.
He is known to have financed the activities of Lashkar-e-Toiba, a
group outlawed by the US in October 2001 and apparently banned by the
Pakistani government in January 2002. The Lashkar is also suspected to
be involved in the recent Delhi blasts.
Apart from the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, Dawood is wanted in several
cases including for drug trafficking, contract killings, aiding and
abetting terrorism and so on.
Dawood's influence in Mumbai
filmdom with many top cine actors and actresses, directors and producers
courting him and his henchmen is all too well known. Congress MP from
Mumbai and Bollywood actor Govinda was recently in news for a video
footage that caught him with the underworld criminal in Dubai.
It is estimated that Dawood and his family own assets worth Rs 1720
crore including several buildings at prime locations of Mumbai such as
Colaba, Crawford Market, Bhendi Bazar, Bandra, Oshiwara and Versova.
Many of these are "benami" making it difficult to confiscate them. The
family also has several builders, stockbrokers and jewellers operating
as fronts for it.
According to well placed sources, Dawood has vast business
interests in the hospitality industry in the United Arab Emirates,
Canada, Australia and India. Several shopping malls in the West and
Australia are also reportedly owned by the family. An airline from a
Central Asian republic is also being allegedly funded by the D-company.
Apart from Salem, another erstwhile hit man to desert the D-company
is Chota Rajan. It is alleged that Rajan is now targeting Dawood in
tandem with the Indian intelligence agencies.
Dawood's
underworld saga appears to be "timeless" stretching many generations and
is unlikely to see an end as long as his crime (business) syndicate
keeps receiving political and police patronage within the country and as
also from across the border in Pakistan.
Salem's "homecoming" will have no significant impact on the deadly acts of the D-empire.