Mystery in India: The richest man in Asia, a jeep full of explosives and a corpse

On the morning of February 25, a car full of explosives was found near the house of Mukes Abani, richer man in Asia, in the heart of Mumbai. A case that has turned into a real puzzle for the police with many unanswered questions for the Indian authorities, reports the BBC.

In the following days, the lifeless body of the (alleged) owner of the vehicle was washed into the sea, while a police officer has been arrested for possible murder. Now, federal police are investigating the mystery, trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together and solve it.

Unrolling the tangle

On the morning of February 25, the security of Moukes Abani – President of Reliance Industries with assets estimated to exceed 70 billion euros Spotted a green SUV parked near his luxury home and alerted police.

Inside the car they were found 20 pieces of dynamite weighing 2.5 kg. They were not connected to each other or by any mechanism. Also, one was found inside the vehicle, among others note addressed to Abani and his wife, Nita.

“This is a trailer [σ.σ: εννοεί ότι αποτελεί κάτι σαν δοκιμή], but next time we will indeed connect them (the explosives) and we will come. “We have arranged to blow up your whole family,” the note said.

Police examined security camera footage from the night before the mysterious appearance of the vehicle in the immediate neighborhood and found that the SUV was waiting at an intersection about 15 km from his home at midnight and at 01:40 a white vehicle approached and together they reached a distance of about 500 meters from the house of Abani. Then a man in a protective suit got out of the green vehicle with the explosives, got into the other and drove away.

Searching for the owner of the car with the explosives, the police reached him Mansuk Heeren, a car accessories store owner.

When questioned, he said the car belonged to someone else, who did not pay him for a job so he took his car. Heeren told police that on Feb. 17, while driving on a highway near Mumbai the SUV broke down and parked there. When he returned the next day, the car was not at the scene, which he reported to the nearest police station.

The case was put on the shelf for a few days until it came out again when in early March Heeren’s lifeless body was washed up in a bay near Mumbai.

What happened to Heeren

Indian media report that Heeren left his shop on the night of March 4 and returned home. When he arrived, he told his family that he had received a phone call from a police officer and that he was going to meet him.

Heeren, however, did not return that night and the next day his family announced his disappearance. Police later announced that the man left his home at 8pm that night while the identity of the police officer he said he would meet is unknown.

Preliminary necropsy showed drowning, but the full forensic report is still awaited to announce the cause of death.

The involvement of a police officer

Among the police officers who arrived near Abani’s house when they were informed of the suspicious car was Sashin Vaze. He says he went there 3-4 hours after the first team.

On March 13, Vaze was arrested after a 12-hour interrogation in connection with the case.

The next day, police found the white SUV they were looking for – the one that had accompanied the vehicle with the explosives – in a parking lot belonging to Vaze’s service. Investigators estimate that he was planning to leave the car with the explosives outside Abani’s house, something that the police officer denies.

Charges have already been filed against him and the court rejected his request to be released on bail. Heeren’s wife, meanwhile, told reporters that her husband knew Vase well and that the two had been using the green SUV for about two years. According to her, her husband was going out and returning home with the policeman.

He says he knows nothing about Heeren’s death serial of the mysterious case to have many more episodes, as it seems…