Current Events > Interpol most wanted may have been hiding in plain sight as Canadian businessman

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https://globalnews.ca/news/6245410/acclaimed-ajax-businessman-is-he-also-fugitive/

Tarekh Rana is an acclaimed Ajax businessman. Is he also a fugitive crime boss?

Tarekh Rana wasted no time making a name for himself after moving to Canada five years ago. He launched a development company east of Toronto and became known as a politically-connected global entrepreneur and philanthropist.

He donated to charities and political candidates, and photos on social media showed him in the company of MPs and mayors. He won civic awards and was a 2018 Entrepreneur of the Year in Ajax, Ont., where his business is based.

But an investigation by Global News and Bangladeshs The Daily Star newspaper has found striking similarities between Rana and an international fugitive accused of leading a criminal organization behind a series of extortions and murders.

Both Rana and the wanted man, Khandekar Tanvirul Islam, alias Joy, an alleged leader of the Seven Star crime group, are 52, similar in appearance and lived in Kolkata, India.

Police and court records allege that a man identified by his co-accused as the Seven Star leader was arrested in Kolkata in 2007, and that he used the alias Md. Tarek Rana. The Ajax businessman also goes by Md. Tarekh Rana.

A photo allegedly taken following the 2007 arrest of the suspect alleged to be Joy shows a man resembling Rana.
An Indian passport in the name Md. Tarekh Rana is also in an Indian court file stemming from the arrest, identified as that of the man who was take into custody.

The birth date, fathers name and wifes name in the passport match those of the Ajax entrepreneur.

Shown the passport, Rana confirmed it was his but denied being arrested in Kolkata or anywhere else and raised the possibility he had been the victim of identity theft.

Im not this guy, he responded, when shown the Interpol photo of the wanted man.

Rana has since left the country. He said he was in India securing money for his Ajax business and would return to Canada on Nov. 28, but there is no indication he has come back.

Legal notices on his office door accuse him of having failed to pay his rent, and those who have loaned him money are concerned.

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REMercsChamp posted...

Im not this guy, he responded, when shown the Interpol photo of the wanted man.

Well, that settles that!

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