Dawood Ibrahim born Sheikh Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar; December 26, 1955),[1] is an Indian underworld leader and crime boss. Dawood's D-Company has been identified as a criminal-terrorism syndicate by the US Congress.Dawood is currently on the Interpol wanted list for organised crime and counterfeiting, besides association with Al-Qaeda as identified in UN Security Council resolutions 1822 (2008) and 1267 (1999)He was No. 4 on the Forbes 2008 list of The World's 10 Most Wanted criminals and no. 50 on the Forbes 2009 list of The World's Most Powerful People.
Dawood Ibrahim is accused of heading a vast and sprawling illegal empire and the owner of notorious D Company. After the 1993 Bombay bombings, which Ibrahim allegedly organized and financed, he became India's most wanted man.According to the United States, Ibrahim maintained close links with al-Qaida's Osama bin Laden.
As a consequence, the United States declared Dawood Ibrahim a "global terrorist" in 2003 and pursued the matter before the United Nations in an attempt to freeze his assets around the world and crack down on his operations. The Bush administration imposed several sanctions on Ibrahim and his associates.Indian and Russian intelligence agencies have pointed out Ibrahim's possible involvement in several other terror attacks, including the November 2008 Mumbai attacks.
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