D Company

The D-Company is an Indian - Pakistani criminal syndicate with a mafia- like structure, which operates far beyond the national borders of both countries. At the top of the strictly hierarchical command structure is Dawood Ibrahim , founder of the D-Company , one of the most wanted criminals and, according to Forbes, one of the most powerful people in the world. The " D " in D-Company stands for " Dawood ". The D-Company has ties to the Taliban , Al-Qaida and Laschkar e-Taiba .

Beginnings

In the mid-1970s, Dawood Ibrahim and a few friends stole contraband on a large scale from a ship. Ibrahim, who grew up in poverty as one of ten children, quickly turned his money into cars and expensive clothes and was from then on interested in quick money. He dealt with drugs, made contact with the glittering world of Bollywood and cultivated friendships with actors. He quickly gets richer through drug trafficking and blackmail. When Indira Gandhi cracked down on organized crime in India and ordered raids with huge police personnel covered by emergency legislation , a sudden power vacuum developed in the underworld of Mumbai in the downfall of many clans , which Dawood Ibrahim wanted to use. At the age of 19, he and a few friends founded a gang of criminals which the press soon dubbed the D-Company .

Further development

In 1992/93 the Indian metropolis of Bombay (today Mumbai) was shaken by massive religious riots. A Hindu extremist mob plundered and murdered in the Muslim quarter. Entire families were wiped out, for example by setting apartments and entire houses on fire and then locking the residents in or beating them to death while they were fleeing.

An investigation by the judiciary showed that the police had actively supported the riots, which developed into a Muslim counter-terror. The subsequent bombing war (department store, roadside and car bombs ) supported by hostile Muslim Pakistan contributed to the escalation through the mobilization of radical forces on both sides. With funds from Dawood Ibrahim, Muslim "self-protection militias" were financed, which in just a few years formed the city's largest organized crime group .

Main fields of activity

The syndicate is said to have organized machinations in the following areas:

• Financing, drug trafficking, extortion, protection money business in the Indian film business of Mumbai since the very beginning ,
• for several years in the real estate business in almost all countries of the Near and Middle East
• In the meantime, the D-Company is also " very big " in the betting business and is increasingly involved in the allocation of bribes in international logistics and telecommunications deals, the Times of India recently reported
• the central and most profitable business, however, is the almost global arms and drug smuggling as well as human trafficking , prostitution and contract killings .

organization

For comparison: a typical mafia hierarchy

Information about the D-Company is mainly available from sources of investigative journalism, which in turn is based almost exclusively on intelligence material. Lt. According to the news magazine Der Spiegel , the D-Company is organized strictly hierarchically, with the number of active members around 5,000. The following hierarchy levels are considered secured:

• Dawood Ibrahim ("gang leader")
• the bhais , the brothers , (comparable to the heads of the Italian and Italian-American Mafia families )
• several degrees of lieutenants (regional commanders)
• the Goondas (so-called " foot soldiers ")
• the Taporis (ordinary members )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Profiles: India's fugitive gangster. In: BBC. September 2006, accessed July 17, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Fact Sheet from Treasury.gov. (PDF; 61 kB) In: Web archive. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009 ; Retrieved July 17, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Possible al-Qaida link to India train attacks. In: NBC News. July 2006, accessed July 17, 2013 . 
4. ^ D-company provided logistic support for 26/11. In: The Hindu. April 2010, accessed July 17, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Cultures in Conflict - India Part 2 - Regional Boom Centers - Bombay / Mumbai ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , globaldefence.net, by Erich Sczepanski, last accessed on June 27, 2013  
6. ↑ Germany in the sights: Terror trail leads to the mafia patron of Mumbai , Der Spiegel , by Hasnain Kazim, Islamabad, last accessed on June 27, 2013