D-Company

D-Company is a name coined by the Indian media for one of Mumbai underworld's Organized crime syndicate founded and controlled by Dawood Ibrahim, an Indian crime boss, drug dealer and wanted terrorist. In 2011, Ibrahim, along with his D-Company, was number three on the FBI's "The World's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives" list.[3]

It has been designated as a Global Terrorist Organization under the SDN by the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, with addresses in India, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates.[4]
Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar[1] and Dawood Ibrahim established a criminal syndicate in 1970s India.[5]

Other prominent members of the gang include Chhota Shakeel, Tiger Memon,[6] Yakub Memon (linked), Abu Salem and Fazlur Rahman (Fazal Sheikh). The organization has a history of rivalry with the Mumbai police and other underworld dons such as Chhota Rajan, Ejaz Lakdawala, who was arrested in Canada in 2004, and Arun Gawli.

D-Company makes large amounts of money through extortion, kidnapping, racketeering, smuggling, trafficking, narcotics, and contract killings. For example, D-Company took advantage to smuggle gold and silver during Mumbai's economic struggles of the 1980s. According to Materia Islamica, they smuggled approximately 25-30% of India's total gold and silver imports. This created a monopoly that allowed their leader, Dawood Ibrahim to set his own selling prices throughout India.[14]