With Osama gone, the hunt for the second man on Interpols most wanted list is on.
NEW DELHI: India wants to know whereabouts of Dawood Ibrahim, currently second on Interpols most wanted list.
It is learnt that the Indian underworld don, who heads the notorious ‘D-Company’ (Dawood Company) is believed to have underworld links in Malaysia, Singapore and Bangkok.
Dawood, currently second on Interpol’s ‘Most Wanted’ list after Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin ‘El Chapo Guzman, following Osama’s death, is believed to have fled to Saudi Arabia.
“Jeddah has always been Dawood’s second home for many reasons. We have prepared a detailed updated dossier on him after Osama’s encounter.
“(Dawood) Ibrahim knows that due to international pressure, Pakistan would never want him to stay put in their territory,” reported the Asian Age newspaper, quoting unnamed Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB) officials.
The dossier was given to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), said the news report.
Dawood, along with his close family members and aides, was believed to have abandoned his Karachi home to take shelter in Saudi Arabia on the night of May 2 – the day elite US forces executed their raid on the Al-Qaeda chief in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
For decades, Indian authorities had been chasing the 55-year-old Dawood, son of a former policeman, who led the ‘D-Company’ which spearheaded organised crimes from drug trafficking, counterfeiting, contract killing to arms smuggling.
The underworld don is allegedly the mastermind behind the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts which killed 257 people.
He is also suspected to have had a hand in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, where 170 victims died.
Intelligence reports have revealed that Dawood had close links with the Al-Qaeda movement and Osama himself.
Dawood is suspected as a potential suspect in masterminding a 1993 terror attack in Mumbai, which killed hundreds, and may have had a hand in the 2008 attacks on a number of prominent, ritzy Mumbai hotels.
What adds to his mystique is that his whereabouts remain unknown — Indian intelligence officials suspect he is in Pakistan, possibly in the port city of Karachi, but the Pakistanis reject those claims.
Some estimates of his wealth number into billions of dollars, tracing him to assets and properties from Malaysia to East Africa. In 2008, Forbes ranked him among the top 10 most wanted fugitives
- Bernama
