How an ex-Minister's son Yunus Ansari runs D-company's deals

KATHMANDU: NMEA, in its various press statements, has openly expressed solidarity with Kashmiri separatist groups. After Salim Miya Ansari's death in 2015, Yunus Ansari started travelling to Pakistan and came in direct contact with Kashmiri separatist groups and also with D-company, a criminal network operated by Dawood Ibrahim through ISI officials.

In May 2019, Nepalese police swooped down on four people at immigration desk of the airport, after they arrived from Qatar with five suitcases, loaded with FICN with the face value over Rs 7 crore. The operation, on a specific tip off from Indian agencies, saw Yunus Ansari and three Pakistani nationals — Muhammad Akhtar (passport number: AA134594), Nadia Anwar (passport number: CN1812032), and Nasir Uddin (passport number: AR2406432) — being arrested on the spot.

Though the police did not divulge much information on the Pakistani nationals, sources here at Indian embassy had revealed that Akhtar, Anwar and Nasiruddin were ISI operatives and the consignment of FICN smuggled by Yunus Ansari, originated from Karachi. The accused arrived in Kathmandu via Qatar only to camouflage their shady operation.

Slapped with several cases of underworld crimes, Yunus Ansari, a frequent visitor to Pakistani Embassy in Kathmandu, was also seen in public functions including Eid milan parties organised by it.

Besides the 2019 case, Yunus Ansari was booked in another case of FICN in 2014, in which fake Indian currency brought by ISI operatives in Nepal was seized from his possession.

With an objective to cover up his underworld operations, Yunus Ansari, at the behest of Dawood Ibrahim gang, had set up a media business in Kathmandu after launching a TV channel under the National group led by him. Sources said that channel headquarters soon became a transit point for running narcotics and FICN rackets. However, since his arrest last year, the channel has shut its operations. (IANS)

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