Dubai has emerged as the source from where the Indian
Mujahideen (IM) gets its funds to wage terror on Indian soil. This has
been revealed in a series of phone call details accessed by Mail Today.
A number of phone calls made by Yasin Bhatkal, heading IM's India operation, and some key players, and which had gone undetected by Indian intelligence agencies, blow the lid off the IM base in Dubai and the financial support it gets from the Gulf country.
It was only after the Maharashtra ATS, investigating the July 2011 Mumbai serial blasts , completed its probe last year that the funding trail became clear. But the fact that these calls were made and the numbers went undetected for months points to a major intelligence failure.
The call details reveal that IM's Dubai-based operator in-charge of handling finances, Muzaffar Kola, was in constant touch with a hawala operator in India who was managing the group's finances through hawala transactions. There were close to 1,000 calls between Kola and Kawalnayan, handling the hawala transactions in India. This was between 2011 and 2012. Their role was exposed only after the Maharashtra ATS filed its chargesheet.
Intelligence agencies tracking the group have been on Yasin's trail for the past four years but have been clueless about his whereabouts. Agencies have maintained that he has been evading arrest and managed to give them the slip despite being under heavy surveillance. But the claims fall flat after scanning through the call records, which show that Yasin was freely using his mobile number throughout 2011.
The number being used by him - 9990985606 - was not known to the intelligence agencies. It was only after the Maharashtra ATS's investigation into the 2011 Mumbai blasts that the investigators came across this number for the first time.
The call records show that Yasin has had hundreds of conversations with unidentified callers.
Some of them could be IM operatives, his associates or even his relatives. The call details clearly indicate that he was having a free run as the agencies bungled time and again, clueless of the fact that he was using a mobile phone.
The details also show that Yasin was in constant touch with a key IM suspect Tehasin, alias Monu, between March 25, 2011 and November 29, 2011. The two spoke 369 times during this period.
Yasin has dodged intelligence agencies on at least three occasions.
He was in custody in a fake currency case in West Bengal in 2009 but came out on bail and continued with his terror activities.
Lack of coordination among the agencies resulted in the West Bengal Police being unaware of his terror activities. Since then Bhatkal has been on the run.
This is not the only time he has managed to give the intelligence agencies the slip. Sources said he managed to escape on two other occasions, and thereafter remains untraceable. In 2011, the agencies came close to nabbing him in Chennai.
Source : India Today
A number of phone calls made by Yasin Bhatkal, heading IM's India operation, and some key players, and which had gone undetected by Indian intelligence agencies, blow the lid off the IM base in Dubai and the financial support it gets from the Gulf country.
It was only after the Maharashtra ATS, investigating the July 2011 Mumbai serial blasts , completed its probe last year that the funding trail became clear. But the fact that these calls were made and the numbers went undetected for months points to a major intelligence failure.
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The call details reveal that IM's Dubai-based operator in-charge of handling finances, Muzaffar Kola, was in constant touch with a hawala operator in India who was managing the group's finances through hawala transactions. There were close to 1,000 calls between Kola and Kawalnayan, handling the hawala transactions in India. This was between 2011 and 2012. Their role was exposed only after the Maharashtra ATS filed its chargesheet.
Intelligence agencies tracking the group have been on Yasin's trail for the past four years but have been clueless about his whereabouts. Agencies have maintained that he has been evading arrest and managed to give them the slip despite being under heavy surveillance. But the claims fall flat after scanning through the call records, which show that Yasin was freely using his mobile number throughout 2011.
The number being used by him - 9990985606 - was not known to the intelligence agencies. It was only after the Maharashtra ATS's investigation into the 2011 Mumbai blasts that the investigators came across this number for the first time.
The call records show that Yasin has had hundreds of conversations with unidentified callers.
Some of them could be IM operatives, his associates or even his relatives. The call details clearly indicate that he was having a free run as the agencies bungled time and again, clueless of the fact that he was using a mobile phone.
The details also show that Yasin was in constant touch with a key IM suspect Tehasin, alias Monu, between March 25, 2011 and November 29, 2011. The two spoke 369 times during this period.
He was in custody in a fake currency case in West Bengal in 2009 but came out on bail and continued with his terror activities.
Lack of coordination among the agencies resulted in the West Bengal Police being unaware of his terror activities. Since then Bhatkal has been on the run.
This is not the only time he has managed to give the intelligence agencies the slip. Sources said he managed to escape on two other occasions, and thereafter remains untraceable. In 2011, the agencies came close to nabbing him in Chennai.
Source : India Today
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