Red Sanders smuggler Kollam Gangi Reddy has properties abroad

Hyderabad: Noted Red Sanders smuggler Kollam Gangi Reddy has partnership in a Dubai hotel. This was revealed in the investigation by AP police, which is currently engaged in digging out details of his assets within the country and abroad. Police suspect that Dubai-based smuggler Shahul Hameed, an associate of Gangi Reddy, is his partners in the Dubai hotel.

The enforcement directorate is digging into the properties of Reddy, which is estimated to worth Rs 400 crore. Police investigation earlier reckoned that Shahul Hameed, against whom an Interpol Red Corner notice is pending, owns Rs 900 crore worth of properties in United Arab Emirates. A senior police official of IG rank said,

“A majority of his properties are in Kadapa and Tirupati. They include agriculture lands and buildings. He also owns two companies. Regarding abroad properties, we don’t have much information. We are trying for deportation of Shahul Hameed too. He had earlier tried to contact us suggesting surrender.”

Chopper used to escort Kollam Gangi Reddy

Red sanders smuggler K. Gangi Reddy was escorted in style on his way  from jail to the airport in Mauritius, enroute to India. The police there used an ambulance in the convoy, on request from AP cops, for  fear he might enact a heart attack. A chopper hovered above in the sky  by way of aerial surveillance, while pilot vehicles and a convoy  formed the  front and back of the vehicle carrying the smuggler.

A top AP police official who was part of the operation said, “We have  suspected that Gangi Reddy might complain of a cardiac arrest, so that  he could be hospitalised in Mauritius. So we asked Mauritius to  provide us with an ambulance. They obliged.” Gangi Reddy had earlier claimed before a Mauritius court that he faced  a threat to his life if he was sent back to India, showing the  clippings of newspapers of around 20 illegal red sanders woodcutters having been shot dead in an encounter.

In the aircraft flying Gangi Reddy from Mauritius to Delhi and then to Hyderabad, accompanied by AP CID officials and Mauritius police, a TV reporter tried to take the smuggler's picture.

A police official said, “The TV reporter took a ticket on business class and exchanged his seat with an economy class passenger. He clicked the pictures of Gangi Reddy and put them on whatsapp. When we noticed him doing this, we complained to the cabin crew. Then the reporter was taken back to his original seat in business class.”
 

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