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Dawood Company is a term coined by the media for the organized criminal group controlled by wanted terrorist and crime boss Dawood Ibrahim. D-Company is directly linked to a range of organized criminal and terrorist activities in India, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates. Several members of the group are on the terrorist and/or wanted persons list produced by Interpol.
Dawood Ibrahim established a booming criminal syndicate in the 1980s. Ibrahim was designated by the U.S. Department of Treasury as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) in late 2003, following the release of information that Ibrahim allowed al Qaeda to use his smuggling routes to escape Afghanistan, and for his support of LeT. Three years later, President George W. Bush designated Ibrahim and D-Company as a significant Foreign Narcotics Trafficker under theForeign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. While it is unlikely that D-Company will ever
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