He fled India to Dubai in 1986 after being wanted by the Mumbai Police for the murder of Samad Khan. He was then chiefly involved in gold smuggling, real estate, extortion and drug trafficking.

After Shabir was killed by the rival Pathan gang, he became the sole boss of his gang, known as the D-Company.

He later split from the gang and created his own gang with his elder brother Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar in the late 1970s. He lived in the Zadgaon area of Dongri and attended Ahmed Sailor High School from which he dropped out.Р”Вawood started his career in crime by engaging in fraud, robbery and petty crimes in his early teens and later joined the gang of Baashu Dada, a local don. His father, Ibrahim Kaskar, worked as a head constable with the Mumbai Police and his mother, Amina Bi, was a homemaker. Р”Вawood Ibrahim was born on 26 December 1955 in a Konkani Muslim family in Khed in Maharashtra, India. In November 2017 as well, Dawood's three properties including the famous Rounaq Afroz Restaurant, also known as Delhi Zaika was also auctioned off by the govt. The government organized the e-auction of his properties under the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act (SAFEMA), 1976. In 2020, the Indian government sold off Dawood's six properties in his ancestral village in Ratnagiri district in coastal Konkan in Maharashtra. He has been previously reported to be living in Karachi, Pakistan, though the Government of Pakistan denies it. Recently, the Pakistani government in order to avoid FATF sanctions, listed Dawood and 87 others in the sanction list. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Forbes, though he has since been dropped from both lists. In 2011, he was named number three on 'The World's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives' by the U.S. He was designated as a global terrorist in 2003 by India and the United States, with a reward of US$25 million on his head for his believed role in the 1993 Bombay bombings.

Ibrahim is wanted on the charges of terrorism, murder, extortion, targeted killing, drug trafficking and various other cases. He reportedly heads the Indian organised crime syndicate, D-Company, which he founded in Mumbai in the 1970s. Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar ( / Р™Р„ b r Р™в„ў Р›в‚¬ h iР›С’ m/ ( listen) born 26 December 1955) is an unapprehended Indian gangster and drug kingpin from Dongri, Mumbai.

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