Chhota Shakeel sent huge money to incite terrorism and target prominent politicians in India: reveals NIA

ugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s close aide Chhota Shakeel had sent huge money to incite terrorism and target prominent politicians in India, said the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a court while seeking custody of his two aides who were nabbed on Friday.

The NIA had arrested two close aides of Shakeel for allegedly handling the illegal activities and financial transactions of the crime syndicate controlled by Ibrahim, and for indulging in terror financing in the western suburbs of Mumbai.

Arif Abubakar Shaikh (59) was arrested from Goregaon West while Shabbir Abubakar Shaikh (51) was held from Mira Road East.

During their interrogation, the NIA team found that Arif and Shabbir had carried out some transactions with Chhota Shakeel.

The NIA had registered a suo-moto case against Dawood Ibrahim’s crime syndicate on February 3.

The case pertains to terror/criminal activities of the international terrorist network of D-Company involving Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and his associates including Haji Anees alias Anees Ibrahim Shaikh, Shakeel Shaikh alias Chhota Shakeel, Javed Patel alias Javed Chikna and Ibrahim Mushtaq Abdul Razzaq Memon alias Tiger Memon, the NIA said in a statement.

They indulged in arms smuggling, narco-terrorism, money laundering, circulation of fake currency and are in unauthorised possession/involved in the acquisition of key assets for raising terror funds and working in active collaboration with international terrorist organisations, including Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Al Qaeda (AQ).The NIA had recently detained Chhota Shakeel’s aide Salim Qureshi aka Salim Fruit in Mumbai after conducting raids at over 20 places.