Ina desperate bid to cover up the nexus between the D-Company and ISI from beingexposed to the world, Pakistan's top sleuths allegedly 'manipulated' a key FBIwitness, who turned hostile and paved way for Dawood Ibrahim's financier JabirMotiwala, to go scot free in a high profile extradition case heard in London.Last week, the US dropped charges and withdrew an extradition case againstJabir, giving a breather to Dawood, India's most wanted fugitive, declared aglobal terrorist by several countries.
FBIinformer and key witness in the case of Kamran Faridi, a Pakistani-American whotrapped Dawood's financier Motiwala in the drug racket, was reportedly'influenced' by ISI officials to give a favourable statement in Britishextradition court which made Dawood's right hand man to walk free from Londonjail, top sources in Indian agencies revealed, while explaining how Pakistaniestablishment managed to save D-company from being put to trial in a US court.
Earlieron the basis of very strong evidence, the London court had cleared extraditionof Dawood's financier to the US. All the charges relating to drugs and moneylaundering against Dawood aide were established in the court. However at a verylater stage when the case was being finalised by the High Court, Kamran Faridi,the key witness surprised everyone while revealing that he was pressured by hisbosses in FBI to trap D-company's finance head Jabir Motiwala in a fake drugcase. Prime witness Faridi's complete U-turn on the story embarrassed the FBI,which ultimately dropped the charges against Dawood's aide.
IndianIntelligence officials said that Kamran Faridi, a former agent and informer ofFBI, whose financial condition was presently not good, was allegedly approachedby ISI sleuths and manipulated. Close to the final hearing in the High Court, aleading Pakistani newspaper, part of ISI's game plan, published Kamran Faridi'sstatement wherein he revealed that Dawood's aide was "trapped" by himin a false case. Faridi also told the Pakistani newspaper that he was forced byFBI bosses to involve D-company in the trap. But Indian agencies do not buyFaridi's side of the story.
"D-companyand ISI worked in tandem to influence Kamran Faridi. For them Faridi was theonly hope as Jabir Motiwala had almost lost the case. The ISI sleuths finallymanaged Faridi to contradict his own revelations about Jabir. We have come toknow that initially Kamran's relatives in Karachi were approached. A fewofficials in Pakistani High Commission and a journalist of a prominent PakistanTV channel based in London, too played a crucial part in highlighting KamranFaridi's manipulated statement," an IPS officer of the Indian agencydisclosed.
Boastingabout it's role, a major Pakistani news Channel, Geo TV claimed that "mostcritical intervention in the case came when the channel and its English newspaperpublished a story on March 19, 2021 revealing that a former Federal Bureau ofInvestigation (FBI) informant was stopped from entering the UK by the UKImmigration authorities, as Kamran Faridi wanted to record his testimony beforethe High Court of Justice. The former FBI agent had wanted to testify underoath before the Court that he was involved in the abuse of process to trapJabir Motiwala. "How a former FBI agent, and a key witness who remainedmum for so many years, turned hostile at such a late stage. Obviously ISImanaged this agent, as Motiwala's extradition would have opened a can of wormsin the US court, exposing the underworld, terror nexus between Dawood Ibrahimand his handlers in Pakistan," a senior officer of Indian agency alleged.
Afteryears of persuasion, the US withdrew the extradition request against JabirMotiwala, involved in drug trafficking and handling international financialdeals of Dawood Ibrahim. Jabir, who flew from Cyprus to London in 2018, wasarrested by Scotland Yard at the request of FBI. During the extradition trialin London, FBI lawyers had disclosed to the court that Jabir Motiwala wasmanaging funds of Dawood Ibrahim in UAE, Britain and other overseas countries.Regarding drug dealing, FBI agents recorded Motiwala on camera, who was seentalking about finance and supply of drugs from Karachi to Atlantic City. Basedon such solid evidence the court had earlier cleared extradition of JabirMotiwala to the US.