D-Company’s business routes unearthed: NIA

Fugitive underworld gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s gang member Salim Qureshi’s family entered Pakistan illegally three times since 2013 via United Arab Emirates to attend Chhota Shakeel’s functions, a National Investigation Agency chargesheet has revealed. In the chargesheet filed in a Mumbai Court, the NIA recorded the statement of Qureshi’s wife Sazia Mohammad Salim Qureshi who lives in the city, in a terror funding case. Making a sensational claim, Sazia Qureshi said that they were allowed entry and exit to and from Pakistan’s Karachi Airport without the stamp of their arrival or departure on their passports. The NIA, which is probing D-company’s syndicate and terror funding, has come to know during interrogation that Karachi airport is under the control of D-company. Stamps are not put on the passports of those who come to the Karachi Airport for striking business deals with Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Shakeel and his family members or D-Company, the NIA probe revealed. They are received from the VIP lounge inside Karachi airport and directly taken to Dawood Ibrahim or Chhota Shakeel’s house. The dominance of D-company at Karachi airport can be gauged from the fact that when the people who came to meet return, they are sent directly to Dubai or Gulf countries without immigration clearance. In this way, there is no inkling of anyone meeting Dawood Ibrahim or Chhota Shakeel or reaching Pakistan at the international level, the probe revealed.