Author: Omer Farooq/Hyderabad
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: September 7, 2002
A senior official in Andhra Pradesh
Police has said that the Dawood Ibrahim gang had routed a huge amount of
ransom money to New York through Dubai and Pakistan and it was used by
Mohammed Atta, the leader of the September 11 terrorist operation in the
United States.
Inspector General of Police (Intelligence)
A Shivshankar in a presentation to the State-level police officers said
that Dawood Ibrahim gang had extorted a ransom Rs 3 crore from the family
of Kolkata-based businessman Partha Roy Burman for his release and the
money was sent to Dubai through the hawala channel.
Later, the money reached Pakistan
where Dawood Ibrahim has taken shelter, and finally Atta reeived it, said
Shivshankar, referring to the series of investigations taken by different
agencies into the kidnap of the Kolkata businessman. Mohammed Atta, Americans
say, led the 19 people team which attacked the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon. The police official, speaking in the presence of the Chief Minister
N Chandra Babu Naidu and the State Home Minister T Devender Goud said that
Dawood's gang used Hyderabad as the safe heaven for this entire operation.
Partha Roy Burman, the chairman of The khadims Group, was kidnapped by
the D-company from Kolkata on June 25 last year and was brought to Hyderabad,
Sivashankar said.
It was in Hyderabad that the family
paid Rs 3 crore to the gang and Burman was released. The transaction came
to light after four people including a Dawood Ibrahim aide Abdul Kareem
alias Kareem Dollar were arrested in Hyderabad in August last.
