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The threat of extortion in today’s world of organized crime and terrorism is very real and has escalated dramatically over the past several years. Extortion comes in many forms and is not just a result of kidnapping. It is necessary for corporation to have an Extortion Prevention Plan and be able to respond accordingly to extortion attempts in order to ensure that a kidnapping or other crime is not committed. This plan would initially involve providing a risk assessment on the company itself and the key principals. This pre-planning strategic approach is critical in dealing with and eliminating any extortion attempts.
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Four Lakdawala aides arrested for extortion
Express News Service
Posted: Oct 17, 2008 at 0336 hrs IST
Mumbai, October 16 The Anti-Extortion Cell of the Crime Branch has arrested four alleged aides of Ejaz Lakdawala who had attempted to extort Rs 10 lakh from a city-based builder. The accused, which include two of Lakdawala’s brothers-in-law, had threatened to kill the builder if he refused to pay.
According to the police, the builder had been receiving threats from one ‘Azgharbhai’, who claimed to be a close aide of notorious don Lakdawala, and had complained to the Crime Branch. The accused Imtiaz Salim Mohammed Qureshi (37) alias Azgharbhai had directed the builder to furnish an ‘advance’ of Rs 1.5 lakh on October 1. However, the officials laid a trap and nabbed Qureshi and Ravi Kumar Sitaram Saha (24) red-handed while accepting the money.
According to Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rakesh Maria, during interrogation the duo revealed that Harish Nanikram Thadani (37) and Bhagwan Hiranand Thadani (36), who are related to Lakdawala, were also involved in the extortion threats. The police arrested them on October 14 and they have been remanded to police custody till October 21.
The police also said that the accused have also confessed to having issued threats to 8-10 builders
Bhagwan Thadani had also been involved in a 2005 case when, acting on Lakdawala’s instructions, he and his aides had shot a shopkeeper in Versova after he had refused to comply with their extortion demands. However, the police had arrested Thadani and recovered Rs 4.4 lakh from him.
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4 Hemant Pujari aides held for extortion
Express News Service
Posted: Sep 11, 2008 at 0356 hrs IST
Mumbai, September 10 The Anti-Extortion Cell (AEC) of the Mumbai Police Crime Branch on Wednesday arrested four aides of fugitive gangster Hemant Pujari, for allegedly demanding Rs 1 lakh from a vegetable vendor in Khar (east).
The arrested accused have been identified as Suresh Babu Pujari (36), Leeladhar Anchan (24), Tejraj Anchan (24) and Vijay Bhange alias Vijay Vada Pav (34). Hemant Pujari and Kishore Pujari have been named as wanted accused in the case.
“The arrested accused had identified themselves as Hemant Pujari’s men, and since August 25 had started demanding Rs 1 lakh as extortion amount from a vegetable vendor Mahendra Mahatma Singh in Khar (east). A case of extortion was registered at Nirmal Nagar police station, and AEC officers today arrested the culprits. They have been remanded to police custody till September 16,” said Joint Commissioner of Police, Crime, Rakesh Maria.
“This shows how weak the gang has become in the city. They are unable to get recruits and they are now in such a desperate situation that they have to target small vegetable vendors for extortion,” said Maria.
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Case of Cyber Extortion
He does not know much about computer hacking, yet 51-year-old cyber criminal Pranab Mitra has stunned even the cyber crime investigation cell of Mumbai police with his bizarre fraud on the Net. Mitra, a former executive of Gujarat Ambuja Cement, was arrested on Monday for posing as a woman and seducing online an Abu Dhabi-based man, thereby managing to extort Rs 96 lakh from him. Investigating officer, Assistant Commissioner of Police, J.S. Sodi, said Mitra has been remanded to police custody till June 24, and has been booked for cheating, impersonation, blackmail and extortion under sections 420, 465, 467, 471, 474 of the IPC, read with the newly formed Information Technology Act.
Mitra posed as a woman, Rita Basu, and created a fake e-mail ID through which he contacted one V.R. Ninawe. According to the FIR, Mitra trapped Ninawe in a ‘‘cyber-relationship’’ sending emotional messages and indulging in online sex since June 2002.Later, Mitra sent an e-mail that ‘‘she would commit suicide’’ if Ninawe ended the relationship. He also gave him ‘‘another friend Ruchira Sengupta’s’’ e-mail ID which was in fact his second bogus address. When Ninawe mailed at the other ID he was shocked to learn that Mitra had died. Then Mitra began the emotional blackmail by calling up Abu Dhabi to say that police here were searching for Ninawe. Ninawe panicked on hearing the news and asked Mitra to arrange for a good advocate for his defence. Ninawe even deposited a few lakh in the bank as advocate fees. Mitra even sent e-mails as high court and police officials to extort more money. Ninawe finally came down to Mumbai to lodge a police case.
Friday, October 17, 2008
3 Delhi cops, lawyer held for extortion
New Delhi: Three Delhi Police officials and a lawyer were arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Friday for extorting money from a businessman after they falsely implicated his father in a murder case, police said.
The arrests were made investigating officials conducted an undercover operation lasting 10 months against the four accused. The ACB investigated the case after Abhinav Krishan Aggarwal, who has a printing and building business, complained to them that Delhi Police's crime branch officials and an advocate were demanding bribes from him in a murder case in which his father was arrested last year. "A sting operation was conducted over a period of 10 months to procure solid evidence against the accused people," Additional Commissioner of Police (ACB) N. Dilip Kumar said. The accused crime branch police inspector, K.G. Tyagi, Sub Inspector Mukesh, Assistant Sub Inspector Rajbir Singh and advocate Ravinder Chadha were arrested Friday morning and were produced before court in the afternoon.
"During the sting operations, it came to light that Ravinder Chadha was acting as a conduit for the bribe on behalf of Tyagi in a murder case," Kumar added.
Aggarwal said a murder had taken place outside their shop in Hauz Qazi last year in September and that is when the problem began.
"Like a law abiding citizen, we informed the police about it. However, in December they detained my father Gopal Krishan Aggarwal and it was then when Inspector Tyagi threatened me to bring Rs.800,000 the next morning if I wanted to save my father," Aggarwal said.
"I gave him the money on the next day but later I came to know that they are arresting my father. When I asked them why are they arresting him, he told me that there is great pressure from above and my father will be freed in few days," he added.
Aggarwal further said that Tyagi then advised him to contact Chadha and it was through him that he was extorting money.
"In all I paid nearly Rs.2.6 million and he was asking me for another Rs.2.5 million. I had contacted ACB and on their advice I was collecting the evidence through a sting operation," he added.
"I am very happy that all of them have been arrested. Now I hope that my father will be proven innocent and would be freed of all charges. The next date of his case is Oct 25," Aggarwal said. "My father was kidnapped and I was paying the money as ransom to these policemen. Gangsters are much better than these kind of policemen, they at least fulfill their promise," he added. The accused were arrested on charges of corruption, abuse of authority, extortion, and conspiracy.
"As per the complainant, about Rs.2.6 million had to be paid on various occasions, out of which Rs.400,000 were for Ravinder Chadha as fees while the rest of the amount was meant for Inspector Tyagi. The complicity of these officials is evident from the recordings available," Kumar further said.
Asked if they have found the involvement of other senior police officer in the case, N. Dilip Kumar said, "We have not found anything but we will ask the Delhi police to conduct an enquiry into the case. Further investigations are in progress." Source: Indo-Asian News Service
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