Dawood Ibrahim (; born 26 December 1955) is an

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gangster,

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, and wanted

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from Dongri,

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. He reportedly heads the Indian

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syndicate D-Company, which he founded in

in the 1970s. Ibrahim is wanted on charges including

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, and

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. He was designated a global terrorist by India and the United States in 2003, with a reward of US$25 million on his head for his suspected role in the

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. In 2011, he was named number three on "The World's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives" by the U.S.

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and

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, though he has since been dropped from both lists. Recently, the Pakistani government listed Dawood and 87 others in its sanction list in order to avoid

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sanctions. He has been reported to live in

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, though the government of Pakistan denies it. In 2020, the Indian government sold off Dawood's six properties in his ancestral village in Ratnagiri district in coastal Konkan in Maharashtra. The government organized the e-auction of his properties under the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act (SAFEMA), 1976. In November 2017, Dawood's three properties, including the famous Rounaq Afroz Restaurant, also known as Delhi Zaika, were auctioned off by the government.

Early life

Dawood Ibrahim was born on 26 December 1955 to a

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family in Khed in

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, India. His father, Ibrahim Kaskar, worked as a head constable with the

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and his mother, Amina Bi, was a homemaker. He lived in the Zadgaon area of Dongri and attended Ahmed Sailor High School, from which he dropped out.

Criminal career

Dawood started committing fraud, theft and robbery while still in his teens. Eventually, he joined the gang of local gangster and don Baashu Dada, part of the local organised crime syndicate. In the late 1970s, he later split from the gang, creating his own gang with his elder brother

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. After Shabir was killed by the rival Pathan gang, he became the sole boss of his gang, known as the D-Company. He was then chiefly involved in gold smuggling, real estate, extortion and drug trafficking. He fled India to

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in 1986 after being wanted by the

for the murder of Samad Khan. In the following years he further expanded his gang with the help of his second-in-command

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, with his gang having over 5000 members and bringing in tens of

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s of rupees in revenue annually by the early 1990s. He was named by the Indian government as one of the masterminds in the 1993 Mumbai Attacks. Following the attacks, he fled Dubai for

, where he is said to live to this day. The

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designated Ibrahim as a terrorist on the

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and the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act as part of its international sanctions program, effectively forbidding US financial entities from working with him and seizing assets believed to be under his control. The Department of Treasury keeps a fact sheet on Ibrahim which contains reports of his syndicate having smuggling routes from South Asia, the Middle-East and Africa shared with and used by terrorist organization

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. The fact sheet also said that Ibrahim's syndicate is involved in large-scale shipment of narcotics in the United Kingdom and Western Europe. He is also believed to have had contacts with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin-Laden. In the late 1990s, Ibrahim traveled to

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under the

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's protection. The syndicate has consistently aimed to destabilise India through riots, terrorism, civil disobedience and pumping fake Indian currency notes into the country. ''

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'' reported that Ibrahim provided the logistics for the

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. Presently, Ibrahim's criminal activities are terror funding, drug trafficking, gunrunning, extortion and money laundering. He has also heavily invested in real estate in Karachi, Dubai and India. He is believed to control much of the

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system, which is the very commonly used unofficial system for transferring money and remittances outside the view of official agents. He was linked to the financing of increasing attacks in

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. In 2006, the government of India handed over to Pakistan, a list of 38 most wanted criminals including Ibrahim. His crime syndicate spreads across Asia, Europe and Africa, with over 40% of its earnings coming from India.

1993 Bombay bombings

Dawood is widely believed to have masterminded the March 1993 bombings in Bombay. In 2003, the Indian and United States governments declared Ibrahim a "Global Terrorist." The Indian Deputy Prime Minister

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described it as a major development. Ibrahim is currently on India's "Most Wanted List". In a public discourse in June 2017,

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confirmed that after the Bombay blasts, Dawood Ibrahim had called him from

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, saying that he was prepared to come to India and stand trial, on the condition that he should not be subjected to any

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treatment from the police. Jethmalani had conveyed this to

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, but the politicians in power did not agree to this proposal. As per Jethmalani, their refusal to allow Dawood's return was due to their fears that he would expose their secrets.

Location

Ibrahim is previously assumed to be living in

and then in the

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. India says he has shifted to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Indian sources add that "

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appeared extremely wary of the new US-Indo cooperation to fight terrorism." On 5 May 2015 MP

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informed the

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(the

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of India's Parliament) that the whereabouts of Ibrahim were unknown. However, on 11 May,

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, the then

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, told the parliament that Ibrahim was in Pakistan and he will bring him back to India. According to claims of Indian news media ''

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'' on 22 August 2015, Dawood was in

. According to said media corporation, they had conversation with a woman in Karachi on August 22, 2015. Transcripts of conversations which were published on the news agency's website, in one conversation she said that she is Dawood's wife and "he is sleeping", while in the second conversation she said that there was no one by that name known to her. According to a dossier prepared by India in August 2015, to be handed over to Pakistan, Ibrahim has nine residences in Pakistan and has three Pakistani passports which he frequently uses to travel. On 22 August 2020, Pakistan issued two notifications sanctioning key terrorist figures. In it, three addresses of Dawood Ibrahim were listed "White House, Near Saudi Mosque,

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" in Karachi, Pakistan; in addition to "House Nu 37 – 30th Street – defence, Housing Authority, Karachi" and "Palatial bungalow in the hilly area of Noorabad in Karachi". Pakistan denied it was admitting he was in Pakistan, stating the notifications only contained what was listed in the list of sanctioned individuals and the entities belonging to the

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. He had been designated by the

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with those addresses in 2003.

Search for Dawood Ibrahim

He was third on Forbes's ''The World's 10 Most Wanted list'' from 2010 until it stopped publishing the list in 2011, and is designated a "global terrorist". Many attempts have been made to locate Ibrahim by the Indian intelligence agencies,

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and Intelligence Bureau (IB), ever since he went into hiding. His location has been frequently traced to

, a claim which the Pakistani authorities have frequently denied. The claims were further established in August 2015, when a phone call made to his home by an Indian television channel, ''

'', was answered by his wife, who confirmed his presence at their home in Karachi. The Indian intelligence agencies immediately prepared a dossier of Ibrahim which included evidence of his location in Karachi, among other evidence. It was to be presented at the

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-level talks between the two countries in the same month, which was however, called off due to political reasons. In an interview with ''

'',

, a former aide of Ibrahim, who he later fell out with in 1992, said that, "He brahimdoes travel out of Pakistan once in a while but Karachi is his base."

Chhota Rajan vs Dawood Ibrahim

is believed to have assisted intelligence agencies in getting a low down on the activities of the D-Company and its members by using his intimate knowledge of the criminal and its operations from his experience. To reinforce his reputation as a patriotic gangster don, Chhota Rajan threatened to brutally murder those accused of engineering the

. Saleem ‘Kurla’ in April 1998 followed by Mohammad Jindran in June 1998 and Majeed Khan on 1 March 1999 were shot dead. It is reported that selective police action against the Ibrahim crime syndicate during the Shiv Sena administration and its subsequent decline through

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helped strengthen Chhota Rajan's position in the underworld. This is similar to how Dawood Ibrahim himself had benefitted from the 1980s police campaign against the

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. The Shiv Sena laid bare its affection for Chhota Rajan in an editorial in the

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newspaper, its mouthpiece, edited by

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. The editorial heaved a sigh of relief, attributing Chhota Rajan's survival to "good fortune" resulting from divine grace. The Pakistani

(ISI) was believed to be behind the attempted assassination of Chhota Rajan. In February 2010, alleged Chhota Rajan associates gunned down

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i media baron Jamim Shah point blank in broad daylight as he was driving to his residence on a public road. Shah ostensibly had links with Dawood Ibrahim and was the mastermind of a racket producing

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Indian currency within Nepal. His anti-Indian criminal activities had rankled the

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n government for more than a decade and half prior.

Family

In 2006, Ibrahim's daughter, Mahrukh Ibrahim, married Junaid Miandad, the son of Pakistani cricketer

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. In 2011, his daughter Mehreen, 24, married Ayub, a Pakistani – American. His son Moin married Saniya, daughter of a London-based businessman on 25 September 2011. Several of his family members, including his brother, Iqbal, live in Mumbai.

In popular culture

Ibrahim and his syndicate D-Company have been linked to the financing of the

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film industry. A number of Bollywood studios and films were financed by D-Company in the 1980s and 1990s. Ibrahim was linked to a number of celebrities during that time, including the beauty pageant contestant Anita Ayub and the Bollywood actress Mandakini. D-Company is also known for extortion and threats targeted towards Bollywood producers and celebrities, and was involved in the murders of Bollywood producers Javed Siddique and

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.10 Times Bollywood Actors Crossed Paths With The Underworld

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, 11 August 2015

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portrayed him in the film Black Friday (2004), directed by

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. The 2002 film ''

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'' is loosely based on D-Company's activities, and its sequel (prequel to events in the movie), the 2005 film '' D'', as well as ''

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'' (2007), the 2010 film ''

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'' and 2013 film

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. The 2013 movie ''

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'' is based on the rise of the D-Company. The titular antagonist in the 2016 Indian action-drama film, '' Dongri Ka Raja'', is based on Ibrahim and is portrayed by

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. The film ''

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'' (2017) is a biographical crime film based on his sister, Haseena Parkar. The 2018 video game '' Hitman 2'' features a Mumbai crime lord active in the movie industry called "Dawood Rangan" as a target, presumably as a reference to Ibrahim himself. '' Dongri to Dubai: Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia'' and '' Byculla to Bangkok'' are non-fiction books by former Indian investigative journalist

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. They trace the evolution of the Mumbai mafia. ''

'' is based on ''Dongri to Dubai''.

References

External links

At Home In Exile

BBC Profile on Ibrahim

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