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title: "Dawood Ibrahim and D-Company: Explained | Model Diplomat"
description: "Dawood Ibrahim heads D-Company, the Mumbai-based crime syndicate behind the 1993 blasts. Why India, the US, and UN list him as a global terrorist."
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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

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- Dawood Ibrahim is a fugitive Indian crime boss who heads D-Company, a Mumbai-rooted organised-crime syndicate engaged in smuggling, terror financing, and extortion.
- Why is Dawood Ibrahim treated as a terrorist rather than merely a fugitive criminal?
- What legal instruments has India used against D-Company?
- How does D-Company differ from a designated terrorist organisation like Lashkar-e-Taiba?
- Why has India been unable to extradite Dawood Ibrahim?

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1. 26 December 1955

   Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, born in Khed taluka, Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra, and raised in the Dongri locality of south Mumbai, is the most prominent figure…

2. 12 March 1993

   Its legal salience for the Indian state crystallised after the serial blasts of , after which Dawood fled India and the syndicate became the central object o…

3. 16 October 2003

   On the United States Department of the Treasury designated Dawood Ibrahim a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224, citing operat…

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In August 2020, Pakistan's federal government issued a sanctions notification listing Karachi addresses for Dawood Ibrahim, which India's Ministry of External Affairs cited as confirmation that the D-Company chief resides on Pakistani soil.

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