Abu Salem
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Abu Salem is an underworld
don
originally from Azamgarh district
in Uttar Pradesh
, India
. He is convicted for the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts
case and killing of India's music baron Gulshan Kumar
in 1997. He has unsuccessfully attempted to kill Bollywood
film directors Rajiv Rai
and Rakesh Roshan
.http://www.dnaindia.com/Report.asp?NewsID=9464 At one time was a close associate of Dawood Ibrahim
. Before becoming a professional criminal, he worked as a driver and hawker
in Mumbai. He is also wanted in India
for various murder and extortion cases.
On September 20, 2002, he and his girl-friend-companion Monica Bedi
were arrested by Interpol
in Lisbon
, Portugal
. His satellite phone
was tracked using GPS technology. He has been accused in the 1993 bomb blasts as well as killing of Bollywood
producer Gulshan Kumar
, Indian actress Manisha Koirala
's secretary, a builder and more than 50 other cases.
In February 2004, a Portugal
court cleared his extradition to India to face trial in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case. In November 2005, Portuguese authorities handed him over along with Monica Bedi
to Indian authorities on the assurance by then India's Home Minister L.K. Advani that death penalty would not be meted either on him or his partner Monica Bedi.
In March 2006, a special TADA
court filed eight charges against him and his alleged associate Riaz Siddiqui for his role in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. He stands accused of ferrying and distributing weapons.
Abu Salem is currently in high-security Arthur Jail in India
.
family in Sarai Mir village of Azamgarh
district. Abu's father was an advocate
by profession. Abu could not complete his education after his father died in a road accident. Initially Abu started a small mechanic shop in his home town to support his family. But soon after he moved to Delhi
, the capital city of India, he worked as a taxi driver. After some time Abu shifted base to Mumbai
, the financial capital of India. In Mumbai he worked again as a driver. It was in Mumbai that he met Dawood, the underworld don, and joined his mafia. Abu Salem split from the Dawood gang in 1998.
Salem later allegedly married his second wife, Bollywood actress Monica Bedi
.
His brother Abu Hatim, a.k.a. Chunchun miyan, who still lives in Azamgarh
and owns a shop called Alamat Tatari, says: "We have no contacts with our brother and even the police know that. He left us after completing his inter-college and never came back." Locals say Abu Salem went to Mumbai to study further, hoping to go to the Gulf later for better opportunities. But he somehow got trapped in gangster Dawood Ibrahim's circle, they claim.
The residents of his native village allegedly don't love him. “I don’t know why he is given such attention. We have no affection for him. Salem left the village after completing his inter college and never came back,” says Tariq Mian, an elderly man who is preparing for his namaz. “His elder brother Abu Hatim, or Chunchun miyan as we call him, still owns a shop here,” he says.
but later split and took to threatening film personalities for extortion
sums. He’s now cooling his heels in Mumbai's Arthur road jail. Common belief is that Shakeel tipped off the cops—juicy revenge for Salem’s unprofessional ways and out-of-control style.
. He was a petty criminal who rose in status in Mumbai’s underworld to be India’s most-wanted man.
Mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, Abu Salem shot to fame with the killings of music baron Gulshan Kumar
, actress Manisha Koirala’s secretary Ajit Dewan and builder Omprakash Kukreja. The don also allegedly attempted to kill cine figures such as Rajeev Rai, Rakesh Roshan and Manmohan Shetty. In the early ’90s Nineties, Salem stayed with his cousin Akthar, a small-time criminal working with gangster Sayyed Topi in Mumbai. Salem later shifted to Santacruze and started a travel agency. He got in touch with one J K Ibrahim, who was working for Dawood. Through him, Salem came under the wings of Dawood.
Charming yet intimidating, Salem could unnerve people. The D-gang needed just someone like him to make threatening calls to people. Salem was given a free hand to extort money from Bollywood bigwigs. In the meantime, he also started staging shows in Dubai, where he invited big actors to impress his boss. Salem plotted the murder of Gulshan Kumar
on August 12, 1997 without Dawood's consent. Hence ,this operation angered Dawood very much. Salem fled Dubai, fearing Dawood’s wrath
Salem always used his own men to carry out operations for Dawood. These men hailed from UP and worked for a small fee. Salem used different people for different tasks — one to deliver the weapon (usually, a woman), another to locate the target and a third one to finish the job. The same weapon was used for many killings, so that in case it was detected the police thought the same person was behind all the attacks.
, then additional commissioner of police (north west Mumbai) who was also behind the 1991 Lokhandwala Complex shootout
, heard of a thug trying to extort money from small time businessmen "I sent two men to go pick him up. When he was presented before me, he appeared to be an ordinary scared miserable chap who thought we were going to bump him off.He was so small at that time. There was nothing impressive about him.".When Salem was in Lisbon
fighting India's extradition attempt, the only proof that he was indeed Salem was provided by the fingerprint and photographs taken after his arrest by A A Khan. After being released from jail for his petty extortion attempt, his ascent in the underworld was spectacular. He rose very quickly to become an integral part of the don's inner circle with a specialty in extorting from the Hindi film industry, channeling illicit money into film production, forcibly getting the dates of stars, and usurping overseas rights. He continued more aggressively on this path after his estrangement with Dawood Ibrahim who had by then evolved into being some sort of a paid protector of filmdom. His friction with Shakeel and Dawood's favouring of Shakeel is said to be the reason behind Salem's split from the D-Company.. Later, a special team, formed under the leadership of then additional commissioner of police A A Khan, arrested him in the early 1990's from his travel agency in Santacruz, northwest Mumbai. He was handed over to the D N Nagar police station in Andheri, northwest Mumbai, where Salem's in-laws had registered a case against him .But after spending two days in jail, he was released..However he was finally arrested in Lisbon,Portugal and was extradiated to India along with Monica Bedi
in Nov 2005.
, his first wife, Samira Jumani, gave some interviews. Salem “was a violent "psychotic man" according to her.” She also said:
“He was never a family person. I never led a life I would say I was married,” she maintains.
However, Pramod Mahajan
's brother, Pravin, who shared time in prison with Abu Salem, said that "Abu Salem is polite."
Subhash Ghai
said in an interview with the Times of India that Salem had called him up asking for the overseas rights of his film Pardes. Ghai noted that Salem was very polite in his conversation and confessed to being a big fan of Ghai's work. When Ghai told Salem that the matter of the overseas rights had already been settled, Salem asked for a copy of the movie, so that he could make pirated copies.
gangster worth Rs. 4000 crores ($1 billion). The man's cash and property have been valued at least Rs 1,000 crore, which is divided between him and his two wives, Samira Jumani and Monica Bedi
. While Salem stakes a claim to Rs 200 crore, his wives jointly possess Rs 800 crore in cash and property. Salem's investments in Bollywood and hawala rackets are estimated to be at least another Rs 3,000 crore. The CBI
arrived at the figures on the basis of one-years transactions (2000–2001), and are said to be a conservative estimate.
Organized crime
Organized crime or criminal organizations are transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit. Some criminal organizations, such as terrorist organizations, are...
don
Mafia
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originally from Azamgarh district
Azamgarh district
Azamgarh district is one of the three districts of Azamgarh Division in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.-Etymology:The district is named after its headquarters town, Azamgarh. Azam, son of Vikramajit, founded the town in 1665. Vikramajit a descendant of Gautam Rajputs of Mehnagar in pargana...
in Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. He is convicted for the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts
1993 Mumbai bombings
The 1993 Bombay bombings were a series of 13 bomb explosions that took place in Bombay , Maharashtra, India on Friday, 12 March 1993. The coordinated attacks were the most destructive bomb explosions in Indian history...
case and killing of India's music baron Gulshan Kumar
Gulshan Kumar
Gulshan Kumar was the founder of the T-Series music label , the best known in India, and an Indian Bollywood movie producer. T series is now run by his son Bhushan Kumar...
in 1997. He has unsuccessfully attempted to kill Bollywood
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
film directors Rajiv Rai
Rajiv Rai
Rajiv Rai is an Indian film writer, editor and director. He is the son of the late producer Gulshan Rai. He has directed all this films under his father's production company Trimurti Films...
and Rakesh Roshan
Rakesh Roshan
Rakesh Roshan Rakesh Roshan Rakesh Roshan (Hindi: राकेश रोशन (born Rakesh Roshan Lal Nagrath on 6 September 1949 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is a producer, director and former actor in Bollywood films who was born in a Punjabi Hindu Kayastha family...
.http://www.dnaindia.com/Report.asp?NewsID=9464 At one time was a close associate of Dawood Ibrahim
Dawood Ibrahim
Dawood Ibrahim , also known as Dawood Ebrahim, and Sheikh Dawood Hassan, is the head of the organized crime syndicate [[D-Company]] in Mumbai. He is currently on the wanted list of Interpol for organised crime and counterfeiting. He was No. 4 on the Forbes' World's Top 10 most dreaded criminals...
. Before becoming a professional criminal, he worked as a driver and hawker
Huckster
A huckster is a seller of small articles, who tricks others into buying cheap imitation products and then bargains them as if they were the real thing...
in Mumbai. He is also wanted in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
for various murder and extortion cases.
On September 20, 2002, he and his girl-friend-companion Monica Bedi
Monica Bedi
-Early life:Bedi was born to Dr. Prem Kumar Bedi and Shakuntala on January 18, 1975 in a village named Chabbewal in the district Hoshiarpur, Punjab. Her parents migrated to Norway when she was 10 months old where they run a garment store. She has a brother Bobby Bedi. She went to school in Norway...
were arrested by Interpol
Interpol
Interpol, whose full name is the International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL, is an organization facilitating international police cooperation...
in Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
, Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
. His satellite phone
Satellite phone
A satellite telephone, satellite phone, or satphone is a type of mobile phone that connects to orbiting satellites instead of terrestrial cell sites...
was tracked using GPS technology. He has been accused in the 1993 bomb blasts as well as killing of Bollywood
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
producer Gulshan Kumar
Gulshan Kumar
Gulshan Kumar was the founder of the T-Series music label , the best known in India, and an Indian Bollywood movie producer. T series is now run by his son Bhushan Kumar...
, Indian actress Manisha Koirala
Manisha Koirala
Manisha B. Koirala is a Nepali-Indian actress who works in Indian films, as well as a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and social activist. Koirala has primarily worked in Hindi cinema, though she has appeared in several Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films as well...
's secretary, a builder and more than 50 other cases.
In February 2004, a Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
court cleared his extradition to India to face trial in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case. In November 2005, Portuguese authorities handed him over along with Monica Bedi
Monica Bedi
-Early life:Bedi was born to Dr. Prem Kumar Bedi and Shakuntala on January 18, 1975 in a village named Chabbewal in the district Hoshiarpur, Punjab. Her parents migrated to Norway when she was 10 months old where they run a garment store. She has a brother Bobby Bedi. She went to school in Norway...
to Indian authorities on the assurance by then India's Home Minister L.K. Advani that death penalty would not be meted either on him or his partner Monica Bedi.
In March 2006, a special TADA
Tada
Tada is a town on the Chennai-Nellore highway, just over from Chennai, India and from Tirupathi. It is located in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh and is about north of the Andhra Pradesh border. This place is the exact border of the Andhra Pradesh.Its nearest major railway station is Tada and...
court filed eight charges against him and his alleged associate Riaz Siddiqui for his role in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. He stands accused of ferrying and distributing weapons.
Abu Salem is currently in high-security Arthur Jail in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
.
Early life
Abu Salem was born in a lower middle classLower middle class
In developed nations across the world, the lower middle class is a sub-division of the greater middle class. Universally the term refers to the group of middle class households or individuals who have not attained the status of the upper middle class associated with the higher realms of the middle...
family in Sarai Mir village of Azamgarh
Azamgarh
Azamgarh is a town in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is headquarters of Azamgarh district and Azamgarh Division.-History:Azamgarh, one of the easternmost districts of the State, once formed a part of the ancient Kosala kingdom, except the north-eastern part of it which was included in the...
district. Abu's father was an advocate
Advocate
An advocate is a term for a professional lawyer used in several different legal systems. These include Scotland, South Africa, India, Scandinavian jurisdictions, Israel, and the British Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man...
by profession. Abu could not complete his education after his father died in a road accident. Initially Abu started a small mechanic shop in his home town to support his family. But soon after he moved to Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
, the capital city of India, he worked as a taxi driver. After some time Abu shifted base to Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
, the financial capital of India. In Mumbai he worked again as a driver. It was in Mumbai that he met Dawood, the underworld don, and joined his mafia. Abu Salem split from the Dawood gang in 1998.
Personal life
He married his first wife Samira Jumani (then a college girl and a minor - 17 years old who was allegedly forcefully married by Salem) in 1991 from whom he has one or two sons. They later divorced. Sameera currently lives in Duluth, Georgia, United States.Salem later allegedly married his second wife, Bollywood actress Monica Bedi
Monica Bedi
-Early life:Bedi was born to Dr. Prem Kumar Bedi and Shakuntala on January 18, 1975 in a village named Chabbewal in the district Hoshiarpur, Punjab. Her parents migrated to Norway when she was 10 months old where they run a garment store. She has a brother Bobby Bedi. She went to school in Norway...
.
His brother Abu Hatim, a.k.a. Chunchun miyan, who still lives in Azamgarh
Azamgarh
Azamgarh is a town in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is headquarters of Azamgarh district and Azamgarh Division.-History:Azamgarh, one of the easternmost districts of the State, once formed a part of the ancient Kosala kingdom, except the north-eastern part of it which was included in the...
and owns a shop called Alamat Tatari, says: "We have no contacts with our brother and even the police know that. He left us after completing his inter-college and never came back." Locals say Abu Salem went to Mumbai to study further, hoping to go to the Gulf later for better opportunities. But he somehow got trapped in gangster Dawood Ibrahim's circle, they claim.
The residents of his native village allegedly don't love him. “I don’t know why he is given such attention. We have no affection for him. Salem left the village after completing his inter college and never came back,” says Tariq Mian, an elderly man who is preparing for his namaz. “His elder brother Abu Hatim, or Chunchun miyan as we call him, still owns a shop here,” he says.
Association with D-Company
Ten years ago, the man who later became Bollywood’s biggest real-life baddie was still conning buyers with cheap electronic goods outside Andheri station. Then his association with Dawood’s brother Anees paid off and he took charge of the D-Company’s Bollywood deals. Salem first worked under Chhota ShakeelChhota Shakeel
Chhota Shakeel , is an Indian, accused of association with Dawood Ibrahim.According to old hats, one of his stories which put him in the spotlight was his encounter with the customs officer...
but later split and took to threatening film personalities for extortion
Extortion
Extortion is a criminal offence which occurs when a person unlawfully obtains either money, property or services from a person, entity, or institution, through coercion. Refraining from doing harm is sometimes euphemistically called protection. Extortion is commonly practiced by organized crime...
sums. He’s now cooling his heels in Mumbai's Arthur road jail. Common belief is that Shakeel tipped off the cops—juicy revenge for Salem’s unprofessional ways and out-of-control style.
Rise in Underworld
Abu Salem drove a taxi in Delhi before becoming the second-in-command of crime lord Dawood IbrahimDawood Ibrahim
Dawood Ibrahim , also known as Dawood Ebrahim, and Sheikh Dawood Hassan, is the head of the organized crime syndicate [[D-Company]] in Mumbai. He is currently on the wanted list of Interpol for organised crime and counterfeiting. He was No. 4 on the Forbes' World's Top 10 most dreaded criminals...
. He was a petty criminal who rose in status in Mumbai’s underworld to be India’s most-wanted man.
Mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, Abu Salem shot to fame with the killings of music baron Gulshan Kumar
Gulshan Kumar
Gulshan Kumar was the founder of the T-Series music label , the best known in India, and an Indian Bollywood movie producer. T series is now run by his son Bhushan Kumar...
, actress Manisha Koirala’s secretary Ajit Dewan and builder Omprakash Kukreja. The don also allegedly attempted to kill cine figures such as Rajeev Rai, Rakesh Roshan and Manmohan Shetty. In the early ’90s Nineties, Salem stayed with his cousin Akthar, a small-time criminal working with gangster Sayyed Topi in Mumbai. Salem later shifted to Santacruze and started a travel agency. He got in touch with one J K Ibrahim, who was working for Dawood. Through him, Salem came under the wings of Dawood.
Charming yet intimidating, Salem could unnerve people. The D-gang needed just someone like him to make threatening calls to people. Salem was given a free hand to extort money from Bollywood bigwigs. In the meantime, he also started staging shows in Dubai, where he invited big actors to impress his boss. Salem plotted the murder of Gulshan Kumar
Gulshan Kumar
Gulshan Kumar was the founder of the T-Series music label , the best known in India, and an Indian Bollywood movie producer. T series is now run by his son Bhushan Kumar...
on August 12, 1997 without Dawood's consent. Hence ,this operation angered Dawood very much. Salem fled Dubai, fearing Dawood’s wrath
Salem always used his own men to carry out operations for Dawood. These men hailed from UP and worked for a small fee. Salem used different people for different tasks — one to deliver the weapon (usually, a woman), another to locate the target and a third one to finish the job. The same weapon was used for many killings, so that in case it was detected the police thought the same person was behind all the attacks.
Arrests
It was in 1991 when Aftab Ahmed KhanAftab Ahmed Khan
Aftab Ahmed Khan is a former Indian Police Service officer, turned politician from Mumbai, India, noted for his encounter killings of gangsters from the Mumbai organized crime syndicates....
, then additional commissioner of police (north west Mumbai) who was also behind the 1991 Lokhandwala Complex shootout
1991 Lokhandwala Complex shootout
The 1991 Lokhandwala Complex shootout was a gunbattle that occurred on 16 November 1991 at the Lokhandwala Complex, Bombay , between seven gangsters led by Maya Dolas and members of the Mumbai police and the ATS led by the then Additional Commissioner of Police, Aftab Ahmed Khan...
, heard of a thug trying to extort money from small time businessmen "I sent two men to go pick him up. When he was presented before me, he appeared to be an ordinary scared miserable chap who thought we were going to bump him off.He was so small at that time. There was nothing impressive about him.".When Salem was in Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
fighting India's extradition attempt, the only proof that he was indeed Salem was provided by the fingerprint and photographs taken after his arrest by A A Khan. After being released from jail for his petty extortion attempt, his ascent in the underworld was spectacular. He rose very quickly to become an integral part of the don's inner circle with a specialty in extorting from the Hindi film industry, channeling illicit money into film production, forcibly getting the dates of stars, and usurping overseas rights. He continued more aggressively on this path after his estrangement with Dawood Ibrahim who had by then evolved into being some sort of a paid protector of filmdom. His friction with Shakeel and Dawood's favouring of Shakeel is said to be the reason behind Salem's split from the D-Company.. Later, a special team, formed under the leadership of then additional commissioner of police A A Khan, arrested him in the early 1990's from his travel agency in Santacruz, northwest Mumbai. He was handed over to the D N Nagar police station in Andheri, northwest Mumbai, where Salem's in-laws had registered a case against him .But after spending two days in jail, he was released..However he was finally arrested in Lisbon,Portugal and was extradiated to India along with Monica Bedi
Monica Bedi
-Early life:Bedi was born to Dr. Prem Kumar Bedi and Shakuntala on January 18, 1975 in a village named Chabbewal in the district Hoshiarpur, Punjab. Her parents migrated to Norway when she was 10 months old where they run a garment store. She has a brother Bobby Bedi. She went to school in Norway...
in Nov 2005.
Behaviour with his first wife
While in the United StatesUnited States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, his first wife, Samira Jumani, gave some interviews. Salem “was a violent "psychotic man" according to her.” She also said:
“He was never a family person. I never led a life I would say I was married,” she maintains.
However, Pramod Mahajan
Pramod Mahajan
Pramod Venkatesh Mahajan was a prominent Indian politician. He was one of the most powerful second generation leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party and, at the time of his death, was locked in a power struggle over who would take over the reins of the BJP when the current aging leadership...
's brother, Pravin, who shared time in prison with Abu Salem, said that "Abu Salem is polite."
Subhash Ghai
Subhash Ghai
Subhash Ghai is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. His most notable films include Kalicharan ,Karz , Hero , Meri Jung , Karma ,Ram Lakhan ,Saudagar , Khalnayak , Pardes and Taal...
said in an interview with the Times of India that Salem had called him up asking for the overseas rights of his film Pardes. Ghai noted that Salem was very polite in his conversation and confessed to being a big fan of Ghai's work. When Ghai told Salem that the matter of the overseas rights had already been settled, Salem asked for a copy of the movie, so that he could make pirated copies.
Net worth
Abu Salem is said to be a billionaireBillionaire
A billionaire, in countries that use the short scale number naming system, is a person who has a net worth of at least one billion units of a given currency, usually the United States dollar, Euro, or Pound sterling. Forbes magazine updates a complete list of U.S. dollar billionaires around the...
gangster worth Rs. 4000 crores ($1 billion). The man's cash and property have been valued at least Rs 1,000 crore, which is divided between him and his two wives, Samira Jumani and Monica Bedi
Monica Bedi
-Early life:Bedi was born to Dr. Prem Kumar Bedi and Shakuntala on January 18, 1975 in a village named Chabbewal in the district Hoshiarpur, Punjab. Her parents migrated to Norway when she was 10 months old where they run a garment store. She has a brother Bobby Bedi. She went to school in Norway...
. While Salem stakes a claim to Rs 200 crore, his wives jointly possess Rs 800 crore in cash and property. Salem's investments in Bollywood and hawala rackets are estimated to be at least another Rs 3,000 crore. The CBI
Central Bureau of Investigation
The Central Bureau of Investigation is a government agency of India that serves as a criminal investigation body, national security agency and intelligence agency. It was established on 1 April 1963 and evolved from the Special Police Establishment founded in 1941...
arrived at the figures on the basis of one-years transactions (2000–2001), and are said to be a conservative estimate.
His possessesion of wealth
Salem possessed a non-immigrant work visa in the US, where he was employed as a maintenance manager for a marine engineering company. As he operated under different names, he could buy property worth crores, despite his employment background. Preliminary calculations by the CBI officials reveal transactions worth Rs 200 crore were carried out by Salem in the year 2000 itself. Details of his earlier transactions were not known as his whereabouts are not known. Police sources say that his benami but legal businesses in the Middle East are run by his close associates.Timeline
An article about him in The Times of India mentioned:See also
- Dawood IbrahimDawood IbrahimDawood Ibrahim , also known as Dawood Ebrahim, and Sheikh Dawood Hassan, is the head of the organized crime syndicate [[D-Company]] in Mumbai. He is currently on the wanted list of Interpol for organised crime and counterfeiting. He was No. 4 on the Forbes' World's Top 10 most dreaded criminals...
- His mentor and Underworld DonCrime bossA crime boss or boss is a person in charge of a criminal organization. A boss typically has absolute or near-absolute control over his subordinates, is greatly feared by his subordinates for his ruthlessness and willingness to take lives in order to exert his influence, and profits come from the... - Monica BediMonica Bedi-Early life:Bedi was born to Dr. Prem Kumar Bedi and Shakuntala on January 18, 1975 in a village named Chabbewal in the district Hoshiarpur, Punjab. Her parents migrated to Norway when she was 10 months old where they run a garment store. She has a brother Bobby Bedi. She went to school in Norway...
- Former BollywoodBollywoodBollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
actress and allegedly his wife
External links
- "Abu Salem arrested in Lisbon" - rediff.comRediff.comRediff.com India is a news, information, entertainment, and shopping portal. It was founded in 1996 as "Rediff On The NeT" and is headquartered in Mumbai, India with offices in New Delhi and New York City, USA....
article dated September 20, 2002 - India's Dreaded Gangster
- Abu Salem Captured
- "Abu Salem: A dossier" - rediff.comRediff.comRediff.com India is a news, information, entertainment, and shopping portal. It was founded in 1996 as "Rediff On The NeT" and is headquartered in Mumbai, India with offices in New Delhi and New York City, USA....
article dated February 21, 2005 - Monica helped me: Abu Salem - The Times of IndiaThe Times of IndiaThe Times of India is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. TOI has the largest circulation among all English-language newspaper in the world, across all formats . It is owned and managed by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd...