Feb 20 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Dawood's nephew held in US for narco-terror

Feb 20 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai)

Ahmed Ali
Mumbai:


Fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim's nephew Sohail Kaskar (36) has been caught in the US for conspiring to commit narco-terrorism, provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and unlawfully sell missile launching systems. The terrorist group is Colombia's FARC (Spanish acronym for Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia).
Sohail and two Pakistani nationals were arrested by the US's dreaded Drug Enforcement Administration in December 2015 after extradition from Spain, but Dawood and his cronies used all their might and connections to suppress the news to prevent Dawood's “international image“ from getting tarnished, sources said. Sohail, alias Ali Danish, is Dawood's deceased younger brother Noora's older son.Sources said Dawood has engaged a top lawyer for Sohail, who, if convicted, can face a maximum sentence of life in jail and a mandatory minimum term of 25 years in prison. The lawyer, Tom Keniff, is representing him in the Manhattan federal court, which charged him in December 2015 for supplying surface to-air missiles (SAMS) to FARC and for bringing drugs, mainly heroin, into the US from Pakistan.

An old Dawood associate said the wanted gangster is upset that Sohail went about his dealings without keeping him or other seniors in the loop. The arrest is a major “embarrassment“ for Dawood, who, a source said, tried his best to keep Sohail at arm's length from the law.

Feb 20 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Sohail and aides sought to import heroin into US    Sohail and the Pakistani nationals, identified as Pirzada Hameed Chisti, alias Benny , and Abdul Wahab Chisti, alias Angel, were arrested in Spain in June 2014 on the request of the US government. After extradition, hey were taken into custody by the US Drug Enforcement Administration's New York Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Strike Force.According to the allega ions contained in the indictment and the underlying complaint at the Manhattan court, from 2013 till the date of heir arrests, the two Pakistani nationals and Sohail participated in a conspiracy to import heroin into the US, to dis ribute the drug, and to support FARC. During meetings in Spain and elsewhere, the trio agreed to sell large quantities of heroin to individuals they believed were from FARC, but who in reality were undercover agents of the Drug Enforcement Administra ion (DEA). Sources said there is a tapped conversation in which Hameed Chisti can be heard orwarding Sohail's bank account information to an undercover DEA officer to facili ate payment for SAMS. As per the indictment, in April 2014 the Chishtis arranged for the delivery of a kg of heroin to the undercover DEA agents in the Nether ands, for transport to the US.After enough proof, the Chishtis and Sohail were arrested.