Age, Biography, and Wiki
Dawood Ibrahim was born in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India. He began his criminal career at a young age and eventually founded D-Company after leaving a local gang in Mumbai. Following the death of his brother, Ibrahim became the sole owner of the syndicate. He has been implicated in several serious crimes, including the 1993 Bombay bombings, leading to his designation as a global terrorist by the United States and India in 2003.
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| Date of Birth | 26 December 1955 |
| Age | 69 Years |
| Birth Place | Khed, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India |
| Horoscope | Capricorn |
| Country | India |
Height, Weight & Measurements
There is limited public information available about Dawood Ibrahim's physical measurements such as height and weight.
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Dating & Relationship Status
Dawood Ibrahim is married. However, detailed information about his personal life remains scarce due to his clandestine nature.
His father, Ibrahim Kaskar, worked as a head constable with the Mumbai Police and his mother, Amina Bi, was a homemaker. He lived in the area of Dongri, Mumbai and attended Ahmed Sailor High School, from which he dropped out.
According to claims of Indian news media Times Now on 22 August 2015, Dawood was in Karachi, Pakistan. According to said media corporation, they had a conversation with a woman in Karachi on 22 August 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.
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, Research and Analysis Wing and Intelligence Bureau (IB), ever since he went into hiding. His location has been frequently traced to Karachi, Pakistan, 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, Times Now, 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 National Security Agency-level talks between the two countries in the same month, which was however, called off due to political reasons.
His only son Moin married Saniya, daughter of a London-based businessman on 25 September 2011. Moin lives in Karachi, Pakistan where he teaches in a mosque, having memorized the Qur'an and becoming a Maulana, while being critical of his father's criminal activities.
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Net Worth and Salary
Dawood Ibrahim's net worth is estimated to be approximately $6.7 billion as of 2015, according to Forbes. His wealth is derived from a vast array of illegal activities, including extortion, drug trafficking, and real estate investments across multiple countries. Despite the lack of recent financial reports, his net worth could potentially be higher considering his ongoing business ventures.
Dawood started committing fraud, theft and robbery while still in his teens. Eventually, he joined the gang of local gangsters 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 Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar. 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 from India to Dubai in 1986 after being wanted by the Mumbai Police for the murder of Samad Khan. In the following years, he further expanded his gang with the help of his second-in-command Chhota Rajan, with his gang having over 5000 members and bringing in tens of crores of rupees in revenue annually by the early 1990s.
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 hawala 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 Gujarat by Lashkar-e-Taiba. 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.
Career, Business, and Investments
Ibrahim's career in crime began early, and he quickly rose to prominence by founding D-Company. The syndicate's activities span across three continents, involving extortion, real estate, drug trafficking, and the Bollywood film industry. His business empire includes properties in at least 16 countries, with significant investments in the UK, among other nations.
Dawood Ibrahim (, ; born 26 December 1955) is an Indian mob boss, drug lord, and terrorist. He reportedly heads the Indian organised crime syndicate D-Company, which he founded in Mumbai in the 1970s. Ibrahim is wanted on charges including murder, extortion, targeted killing, drug trafficking, and terrorism.
Chhota Rajan is believed to have assisted intelligence agencies in understanding 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 1993 Bombay bombings. 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 encounter killings 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 Pathan gang. The Shiv Sena laid bare its affection for Chhota Rajan in an editorial in the Saamna newspaper, its mouthpiece, edited by Bal Thackeray. The editorial heaved a sigh of relief, attributing Chhota Rajan's survival to "good fortune" resulting from divine grace. The Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was believed to be behind the attempted assassination of Chhota Rajan.
Ibrahim and his syndicate D-Company have been linked to the financing of the Bollywood 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 Ayoob 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 Gulshan Kumar.
Vijay Maurya portrayed him in the film Black Friday (2004), directed by Anurag Kashyap. The 2002 film Company is loosely based on D-Company's activities, the 2005 film D, the 2007 film Risk, as well as Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007), the 2010 film Once Upon a Time in Mumbai and its sequel, 2013 film Once Upon ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara!, another 2013 film D-Day. The 2013 movie Shootout at Wadala 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 Gashmeer Mahajani. The film Haseena Parkar (2017) is a biographical crime film based on his sister, Haseena Parkar. Another 2017 movie - Daddy - which was based on Arun Gawli, one of Ibrahim's rivals, saw Farhan Akhtar portray Maqsood, a character loosely based on Ibrahim. A comedy movie was also released in 2017, Coffee with D.
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.
Social Network
Dawood Ibrahim operates clandestinely and does not maintain a public social media presence. His activities are often shrouded in secrecy due to his status as a fugitive.
Education
There is limited information available regarding Dawood Ibrahim's educational background.
In a public discourse in June 2017, Ram Jethmalani confirmed that after the Bombay blasts, Dawood Ibrahim had called him from London, saying that he was prepared to come to India and stand trial, on the condition that he should not be subjected to any third degree treatment from the police. Jethmalani had conveyed this to Sharad Pawar, 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.
Summary
Dawood Ibrahim is a highly influential figure in the global underworld, known for his vast wealth and extensive network of illegal activities. Despite his notoriety and the significant rewards for his capture, he remains at large, suspected to be residing in Karachi, Pakistan. His business empire continues to span multiple continents, making him one of the most powerful and elusive criminals in history.
