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Organized Crime after 10 years Vishad M., Mumbai It is always difficult to predict the future of any activity, and especially so if it is regarding the underworld. However, it can be safely assumed that a decade from now, the underworld would be crueller, more organized and more comprehensive. The underworld would assume corporate proportions to an extent, and the major players will adopt a more business-like approach for making money and hiding themselves in the society. The entertainment and property industries will remain to be a lucrative avenue for earnings for the underworld gangs, though their main business areas will be narcotics and arms smuggling in connivance with the national and international terrorist groups. Contract killing will most probably take on international proportions. As of now, the Mumbai gangs are catching up at a fast pace with the narcotics trade worldwide and spreading this evil in the society. Mumbai mafia will not only start buying drugs from Afgan-Pak frontier, golden triangle or golden crescent areas but will also start producing it in the country itself, mainly number one ‘uncut’ heroine. This would fetch millions of rupees for gang lords. Arms smuggling would be one of the main source of income for kingpins of Mumbai. The way our judiciary is functioning, it is also very clear that bedfellas of Mumbai would not be afraid anymore and will play with the society. By the end of the decade, Mumbai mafia will not only come stronger than today, but also will be more organized and don a corporate image. Mumbai’s bad boys of the world of killing would not only make their infrastructure stronger, they would start a money laundering hub in this country. They might open countrywide chain shops for the job, and take equity in media such as newspapers & magazines, FM radio channel, cable channel and private TV channels to get information. The D-Company has already embarked on this route in the neighbouring country of Nepal. They would most certainly be venturing into the hotel business, establishing chains that could work as their hideouts or could be another venue where they would dispense access money. The gangs could also open travelling agencies that could facilitate the worldwide movement of their key members. It is well known that Dawood Ibrahim had started recruiting retired IB and CBI officers for his company (gang), and it is very likely that others would also follow him for legal advice, technical support, work suggestions, intelligence guidance and opinion for legitimate their illicit business. They would be more sophisticated and portray a corporate imag like that by the Japanese gang ‘Yakuja’ or China’s ‘Red Bamboo’ gang. These gangs have their own shipping, air, road transport companies, taxi services, hospitals, banking system, computer companies, cellular and pager companies and they are recruiting their ‘boys’ as executives. In case of their death in any ‘operation’, the company pays the family of the deceased a good amount as pension and if they are caught by any intelligence or investigation agency, then the company bears the legal cost. The next-gen Indian crime syndicates are most likely to follow the same model. The trade of antiques and artefacts are not a subject of interest of the Mumbai underworld as of now, but, the scene will be very different in a decade’s time. Mumbai Mafioso would not only turn up to this treasure of India but smuggle and sell it internationally. Artefacts and antiques is lying aplenty in the country backyards and giving open invitations to the gang lords, “please come, take us away and spread the Indian art and culture worldwide.” It is learnt that some of our gang bosses tried to buy diamond quarries in Madhy Pradesh some time back. Dawood is on the top of the chart for the same business. Abu Salem was also heard of trying to buy a stake in a South African gold mine. This is a clear indication of the changing characteristic of gangland mannerism. In the coming years, they will not only hold this business legally, but take its advantage in smuggling too. Sophistication in the workmanship would be another part of new generation gangs in all ways – Arms to Extortion. Style of extortion would change, gangs will collect hafta from buildings or apartments of residential societies and in case of non-payment, they will use terror tactics to set an example for others – like bombing the building. Societies will then be forced to pay the hafta to gang lord’s front company which would be a building maintenance, pesticide control or a cable TV network service provider company. And in the end, only question left to be answered is who will be uncrowned king of the Mumbai mafia? This is very sure that no gang boss of today would be left alive after 10 years or in case they are alive they will surely withdraw themselves from the killing land. The Gen-Y gang boss would not only be clever but also educated and well behaved adolescent. No, this man at war would not belong to any gang boss family, because it is a known truth that no family member has ever come on the top of a gang in the world. As in the past, only a muscle man, who dares to survive in the rain of bullets, would be the boss of the underworld a decade from now. |
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