Tiger Memon

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Tiger Memon, one of the most wanted persons by Interpol and CBI, [4]The Hindu is the key conspirator of the 1993 Bombay Bomb Blasts.Reportedly, he is a former member of the “D – Company,” an organised crime family of an Indian mafia gangster and a wanted terrorist from Dongri, Dawood Ibrahim.In November 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) declared Tiger Memon as a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act) for his association with the D-Company. [5]Office of Foreign Assets Control [6]The Hindu.According to some sources, Ibrahim Mushtaq Memon, along with all his brothers, was named after the esteemed prophets quoted in the Quran and Old Testament. [7]The Telegraph.Reportedly, Tiger Memon murdered Manjubhai, a hotelier from Nagpara in South Mumbai, who was suspected of giving a tip to the customs officials about seven crores of the gold consignment; the consignment belonged to a smuggling gang for which Memon used to work and was ceased in 1982. [8]DNA Some sources claimed that after this murder, Memon was called ‘Tiger.’ [9]DNA.As claimed by the media outlets, Tiger quit his studies to give his family financial support by getting a job. [10]The Telegraph.According to some sources, Tiger joined Konkan Mercantile Bank in south Mumbai as a clerk. [11]The Telegraph Tiger, however, was helped by his father, Razzak Memon, to get the job as he had a powerful grip over the community.As reported by some media outlets, Tiger Memon once caught up in a fight with the manager of the bank as he asked Tiger to get a cup of tea for one of the visitors at the bank, finding it disrespectful, Tiger held the manager by his collar and hit him so hard that he collapsed on his seat. [12]The Telegraph.Reportedly, Tiger chose the alternate route of smuggling to become rich following which he became one of the top smugglers. [13]The Telegraph.According to some sources, Tiger took over his brother Yakub’s ‘Tejrath International,’ a company dealing with the export of meat and meat products, and used its name and reputation to hide his smuggling deals.