Too Many Aliases
India’s most wanted, Dawood Ibrahim, remains the only ‘Indian national’ on an updated list of financial sanctions released by the UK, which also listed his 21 aliases. The underworld don and mastermind of the Mumbai blasts is also known by such names as 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, Hassan, Ibrahim, Anis, Dowood, Shaikh; Kaskar, Daud, Hasan, Shaikh, Ibrahim, Memon, Sabri, Sahab, Haji and Seth. The list also includes organisations such as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Khalistan Zindabad Force and Hizb-ul Mujahideen. A series of affiliates of ‘Al-Qaeda’ and the ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ are also recorded on the list. Financial sanctions in force could apply to individuals, entities and governments who may be resident in the UK or abroad.
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