One of the world’s most wanted gangsters has had his assets frozen - including property in the Midlands.
Kaskar Dawood Ibrahim is the second richest criminal to have ever lived, after Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, according to Forbes business magazine.
The 61-year-old Indian national, who goes by 21 aliases, is estimated to be worth $6.7 billion while rewards totalling $25m are on offer for his capture. He owns a hotel in Warwickshire and other residential properties across the Midlands.
The shadowy son of a Mumbai policeman is accused of heading a global crime empire called D Company, spanning 16 countries across five continents.
The Indian government claim he has ties to Al Qaeda and blame him for a series of bombings in Mumbai in 1993 and for planning the Mumbai massacre in 2009.
Ibrahim, known as The Don, appears on the latest UK Treasury department’s Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets, updated last month.
The Treasury sanction document lists three recorded addresses for Ibrahim in Pakistan including one sprawling property called The White House near the Saudi mosque in the seaside suburb of Clifton in Karachi Pakistan.
The UK also lists 21 aliases for Ibrahim including Abdul, Shaikh, Ismail; Abdul Aziz, Abdul Hamid; Abdul Rehman, Shaikh, Mohd, Ismail; Anis, Ibrahim, Shaikh, Mohd; Bhai, Bada; Bhai, Dawood; Bhai, Iqbal; Dilip, Aziz; Ebrahim, Dawood; Farooqi, Sheikh; Hasan, Kaskar, Dawood; Hassan, Dawood; Ibrahim, Anis; Ibrahim, Dowood, Hassan, Shaikh; Kaskar, Daud, Hasan, Shaikh, Ibrahim; Kaskar, Daud, Ibrahim, Memon; Kaskar, Dawood, Hasan, Ibrahim; Memon, Dawood, Ibrahim; Sabri, Dawood; Sahab, Haji; and Seth, Bada.
In 2015 Indian investigators visited the Midlands to identify and seize the underworld kingpin’s UK assets.
