NEW DELHI: Security around Harshad Mehta has been tightened following reports that drug cartels based in Dubai and Hong Kong may make attempts to “eliminate” the stockbroker who is being interrogated in the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Reports to this effect have been received from intelligence source abroad as well as from Inter pore liable sources said. One of the drug cartels based in Duhal is believed to be controlled by Dawood Ibrahim.
A CBI spokesman said he had no information about any Interpol message having reached the Bureaus headquarters. He hoy ever, confirmed that the Byculia Jail authorities in Bombay had sent a “general message” about the “threat Perception” to Harsha Mehta and the need to provide him “adequate security arrangements.” estranged wife, Rama. There have been persistent reports that underworld dons like Dawood are active in the cawala market earlier this year, The returns on money laundering were high in January and February as Indians holding back money in the country sought to launder it through the Governments amnesty schemes, including the India Development Bonds.
The bulk of the US $2.5 billion investment (around Rs6,500crore at the then prevailing exchange rates) came into the country that time.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 4, 1992
