Master of film piracy racket is in Pakistan: police

The six persons arrested in connection with the piracy racket of Bollywood movies used to send the movies to their mastermind in Pakistan, who then circulated it throughout the world, police said today.
    
The city police had arrested six persons, including the manager of Adlabs Processing at the Film City, for allegedly stealing the master print of Ashutosh Gowariker-directed
'What's Your Raashee?' that releases in cinema halls on Friday, and making pirated DVDs.
    
"A person by name Asif is the mastermind behind the whole racket. One of the arrested accused, Tanzim Sayed used to send the movie via internet to Asif, who is based in Karachi in Pakistan," Joint Commissioner of Police, Rakesh Maria told reporters.
    
Asif used to then dispatch copies of the movie to various India cities like Chennai, Delhi, Ahmedabad and also to other countries like Germany, Bangladesh, Austria and Indonesia. Asif used to send money for the movies through hawala, Maria said adding it is presumed that Asif has connections with the underworld.

The six arrested accused are Afsar Hussain, Tanzim Sayed, Firoz Khan, DurgadasBhakta, manager of Adlbas, his associate Ajay Pal and Rajesh Chaudhari, who is the associate vice president of UFO company, which deals with digital mastering of the movies.