Dawood Ebrahim

Dawood Ibrahim
Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar
Born	Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar (1955-12-27) 27 December 1955 (age 62) Khed Ratnagiri, Bombay State, India
Occupation	Gangster
Organization	D-Company
Home town	Dongri, Mumbai
Net worth	est. US$ 6.7 billion (May 2015)
Opponent(s)	At least 5 Chota Rajan Ravi Pujari Ali Budesh Ejaz Lakdawala Arun Gawli
Criminal charge	organised crime, terrorism
Criminal status	MOST WANTED,UNDERWORLD DON
Spouse(s)	Mehjabeen Shaikh (aka Zubeena Zareen)
Children	3
Relatives	Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar (brother); (deceased) Iqbal Ibrahim Kaskar (brother) Haseena Parkar (sister); (deceased)
Reward amount	US$ 25 million
Wanted by	India
Wanted since	1980s

Dawood Ibrahim (born Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar 27 December 1955) is a criminal and a designated terrorist originally from Dongri in Mumbai, India.

He currently resides in Karachi and heads the Indian organised crime syndicate D-Company which he founded in Mumbai in the 1970s. Dawood is wanted on the charges of murder, extortion, targeted killing, drug trafficking, terrorism and various other cases. He was designated as a global terrorist in 2003 with the head money of US$25 million. In 2011, he was named number three on World's 10 most wanted criminals.

Ibrahim was born on 27 December 1955 in a Konkani Muslim family in Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra, India. His father, Ibrahim Kaskar, worked as a head constable with the Mumbai Police and his mother, Amina, was a housewife. He lived in the Temkar Mohalla area of Dongri, attended Ahmed Sailor High School from which he dropped out. He grew up in the Dongri locality of Mumbai, which was when he came in contact with the gang of mobster Haji Mastan, after the latter attacked two of Ibrahim's men. Ibrahim, with his brother Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar formed the D-Company.

Ibrahim 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. Many of the organisation's operations are in India.