25 Facts About Dawood Ibrahim

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Dawood Ibrahim 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 1993 Bombay bombings.

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Dawood Ibrahim has been reported to live in Karachi, Pakistan, though the government of Pakistan denies it.

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Dawood Ibrahim was born on 26 December 1955 to a Konkani Muslim family in Khed in Maharashtra, India.

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Dawood Ibrahim's father, Ibrahim Kaskar, worked as a head constable with the Mumbai Police and his mother, Amina Bi, was a homemaker.

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Dawood Ibrahim lived in the Zadgaon area of Dongri and attended Ahmed Sailor High School, from which he dropped out.

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Dawood Ibrahim started committing fraud, theft and robbery while still in his teens.

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Dawood Ibrahim was then chiefly involved in gold smuggling, real estate, extortion and drug trafficking.

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Dawood Ibrahim fled from India to Dubai in 1986 after being wanted by the Mumbai Police for the murder of Samad Khan.

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Dawood Ibrahim was named by the Indian government as one of the masterminds in the 1993 Mumbai Attacks.

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The Department of Treasury keeps a fact sheet on Dawood 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 al-Qaeda.

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The fact sheet said that Dawood Ibrahim's syndicate is involved in large-scale shipment of narcotics in the United Kingdom and Western Europe.

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Dawood Ibrahim is believed to have had contacts with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin-Laden.

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India Today reported that Dawood Ibrahim provided the logistics for the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

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Dawood Ibrahim has heavily invested in real estate in Karachi, Dubai and India.

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Dawood Ibrahim is believed to control much of the hawala system, which is the very commonly used unofficial system for transferring money and remittances outside the view of official agents.

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Dawood Ibrahim was linked to the financing of increasing attacks in Gujarat by Lashkar-e-Taiba.

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Dawood Ibrahim is widely believed to have masterminded the March 1993 bombings in Bombay.

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Dawood Ibrahim is previously assumed to be living in Pakistan and then in the United Arab Emirates.

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Dawood Ibrahim had been designated by the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee with those addresses in 2003.

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Dawood Ibrahim 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".

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Dawood Ibrahim's location has been frequently traced to Karachi, Pakistan, a claim which the Pakistani authorities have frequently denied.

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The Indian intelligence agencies immediately prepared a dossier of Dawood Ibrahim which included evidence of his location in Karachi, among other evidence.

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Shah ostensibly had links with Dawood Ibrahim and was the mastermind of a racket producing counterfeit Indian currency within Nepal.

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Dawood Ibrahim was linked to a number of celebrities during that time, including the beauty pageant contestant Anita Ayub and the Bollywood actress Mandakini.

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The titular antagonist in the 2016 Indian action-drama film, Dongri Ka Raja, is based on Dawood Ibrahim and is portrayed by Gashmeer Mahajani.