Laden Ranked One, Dawood Three in Forbes Most Wanted Fugitives List
For the second time, al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden is ranked first in the Forbes’ Most Wanted Fugitives list, while Dawood Ibrahim is at slot three, said media reports.
The US business magazine noted that not a single of world’s most notorious criminal has been brought to book since the list first appeared in April 2008, reports said.
Belied to be taking shelter in tribal areas of Pakistan, Laden has managed to evade the largest manhunt in history for eight years, while other criminals in the list not only avoided being caught rather grew powerful, said reports quoting the magazine.
Mexico’s most notorious drug trafficker Joaquin Guzman, ranked second in the list, has extended his control over corridors used to smuggle cocaine into the US, as some of his rivals have fallen in the bloody war between the Mexican army and the cartels, reports said.
Forbes noted that Dawood Ibrahim heading crime group D-Company and Matteo Messina Denaro, an Italian mafia playboy, appear to have consolidated control of their organizations, reports said.
It said that D-Company having 5,000 member criminals has been involved in every crime ranging from narcotics to contract killing, and worked mostly in Pakistan, India and the United Arab Emirates, said reports.
Quoting the US government, the Forbes noted that Ibrahim shares smuggling routes with Al-Qaeda and has collaborated with both Al Qaeda and its South Asian affiliate, Lashkar-e-Taiba, which carried out the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, possibly with Ibrahim’s help, reports said.
Forbes said that it consulted with law enforcement agencies in the US and around the world to identify its top 10 and everyone on the list has been criminally indicted or charged, some in national jurisdictions and some by international tribunals, said reports.
They all are accused of a long history of committing serious crimes and are still considered dangerous. And each represents a type of criminal problem with which legal institutions in diverse jurisdictions are grappling, it said.
(Based on internet reports)
