Arif Mindi’s son arrested

In a major breakthrough, the Surat Special Operations Group (SOG) has nabbed the son of notorious gangster Arif Mindi from the city’s Sindhiwad vicinity in the Sonifalia area.

Mindi’s son, Uwaid, alias Uhaid Arif Mindi Sheikh, was nabbed over his alleged involvement in the network converting fraudulent amounts into USDT (Tether cryptocurrency).

It was also found that Uwaid had ties with Abdul Rehman Maqbool, ‘Doctor’, with whom he colluded to run this currency conversion and also a gold smuggling network.

Surat SOG had previously nabbed Maqbool and his sons Kashif and Maaz Abdul Rahim Nada in this case.

Links were established of their involvement in converting the laundered money to USDT, the origins of which were traced to Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and China.

Their involvement has been uncovered in 27 offences, including the ₹1.21 crore digital arrest case in Vadodara, as well as cases in Pune, Latur, Gurugram, Panchkula, Kerala’s Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuram, Telangana’s Cyberabad, Rachakonda, Medak, Uttar Pradesh’s Chandauli, GautamBuddha Nagar, Bhadohi, Andhra Pradesh’s Nandyal, Tamil Nadu’s Chennai, Kanchipuram, Jaipur, Delhi, and Pondicherry.

Their savings account statements reflected ₹24.17 crore transactions. Scrutiny of their mobile phones uncovered links to eight angadia firms where transactions worth ₹9.75 crore were made. Moreover, links to 122 bank accounts were also established, of which ₹34.09 crore worth of transactions were found to be made in mere 11 accounts.

Transaction links were established, which uncovered transactions worth ₹5.69 crore in Kashif’s account, ₹76.32 lakh in Maqbool and his wife Sumaiyya’s account, and ₹35.06 lakh in Maaz Abdul’s account.

Alongside, two contacts saved as ‘USDT Kaka’ and ‘Hubby MBL-2’ were found in Maqbool’s phone. Police have begun a probe to identify these contacts.

After the completion of their remand on Sunday, the father and his sons were presented again before a court, where the SOG got their four-day remand.