In April 2000, Ansari spoke to Raza Khan over phone from Mumbai, and asked him to send two hitmen with revolvers to Kathmandu. Ansari had charted out a plan to kidnap businessman and co-brother of filmstar Govinda, Niranjan Shah Jayanti Lal. Ansari had taken up a place residence. A demand of Rs 200 crore was raised. When Lal was released, he had spent 55 days in captivity, and shelled out a tenth of the ransom demand.

Raza Khan and Ansari had also wanted to sell information on Lal to the FBI in May 2000. The gang believed, according to interrogation reports, that Lal had shipped some drugs concealed in a consignment of dates, to Canada. FBI members of the American Embassy insisted on seeing documents, but since they were not handed over by Ansari, the "talks" failed.

Ansari also had plans of abducting Rohit, son of a nursing home owner in Jamshedpur in June/July 2000. The same weapons used in the Lal kidnapping were carried. The plot failed: when the boy was being picked up, there was a commotion, and they fled.

Ansari sent several boys from Kolkata to Pakistan, and they received arms training in LeT caamps before returning in January 2001.

Plans to abduct a shipping magnate in Kolkata, "Mahalingam" was attempted. The gang members were led by Ansari who went in posing as a CBI officer. They abandoned plans after finding that Mahalingam wasn't at home.

In early November 2000, Ansari and Khan, along with others kidnapped Bhaskar Parik and a friend, a Rajkot businessman. They were kept at a hideout in Junagadh, and then to the jungles of Surat. Parikh was released after he parted with Rs 3 crore to Ansari in Dubai.

Khan was asked in December 2000 by Ansari to receive Mohammad Arshad Khan, a Pakistani national and HUJI activist in Kolkata. He was a Taliban fighter who was to settle down in India as a "sleeper". Ansari funded a shoe business for Arshad Khan in Agra.

Met Ansari and top functionaries of outfits like LeT in January 2001, after crossing over in a fake Banldeshi passport, then flew to Karachi from Dhaka. Ansari told Khan that the leaders of different militant outfits in Pakistan were trying to use his networks for their purpose of jehad, whereas Ansari was trying to use militants' networks for underworld operations. Ansari told him about arms/ammunitions from Pakistan for the use of underworld activists in India.

Ansari took him to Omar Sheikh, whom Khan knew from his Tihar days. Sheikh asked him to visit Afghanistan to see training camps and other related infrastructures under the command of the Taliban regime. Sheikh then asked him to recruit Muslim youth for him who could be trained in Pakistan and would be launched back to India to participate in the jehad. The young men, mujahideens, could be used for underworld operations as well.

In July 2001, on Ansari's instructions, a detailed plan to kidnap Khadim's owner Partho Roy Burman was chalked out in Kolkata. Burman was taken to Haruya in 24 North Pargan and kept captive for eight days. Ansari from Dubai struck a deal of Rs 5 crore with the family members of Burman as ransom. He was released when Burman paid Rs 3.75 crore. The rest was paid later. A part of the ransom money was sent to Sheikh who had funded the jehadis led by Mohammad Atta who were attacking America. The money would also be used for attacking symbols of Indian democracy (like the Parliament House), by sending trained cadres of militants.