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Abu saleem king of mumbai for some time


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Times have changed radically in Bollywood since Salem fled India.

It is widely believed that the city's underworld does not dominate the industry in the way it used to in the 1980's and 1990's.

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Salem is infamous for terrorizing the Bollywood film industry by extorting money from film producers and usurping the overseas distribution rights, he basically from Azamgarh. It is believed that Salem was the mastermind behind threatening Bollywood film producers like Gulshan Kumar, Subhash Ghai, Rajiv Rai and Rakesh Roshan. While his gang members assassinated Gulshan Kumar in 1997, they also tried to assassinate Rajiv Rai and Rakesh Roshan but failed. After the assassination of music baron and film producer he was also involved in several murder, extortion and other cases, 

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Abu Salem got the support of Anees Ibrahim (Dawood's brother) and he rose to prominence within the gang; because of his smooth talking skills, Salem was given the responsibility to manage the Bollywood deals and film financing for Dawood

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Net worth

Abu Salem is said to be a billionaire gangster worth Rs. 55 billion (Approx $0.67 billion).[15] His cash and property have been valued at least Rs 10 billion, which is divided between him and his wife, Samira Jumani. While Salem stakes a claim to Rs 2 billion, his wife possess Rs 8 billion in cash and property. Salem's investments in Bollywood and hawala rackets are estimated to be at least another Rs 30 billion; the CBI arrived at the figures on the basis of one-years transactions (2000–2001), and are said to be a conservative estimate.[16]

Salem possessed a non-immigrant work visa in the US, where he was employed as a maintenance manager for a marine engineering company; as he operated under different names, he could buy property worth crores, despite his employment background. Preliminary calculations by the CBI reveal transactions worth Rs 2 billion were carried out by Salem in the year 2000 itself. Details of his earlier transactions were not known as his whereabouts are not known. Police sources say that his benami but legal businesses in the Middle East are run by his close associates.

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And Bollywood produced great movies under mafia. It is far better than control of govt of India which is the worst gangster with its gst, corrupt bureaucracy, “seekho hindi””hindi seekho” bullying. Targeted tax extraction and benefits based on ethnic basis.

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