Dawood Ibrahim | File Picture | Photo Credit: IANS

Key Highlights Ahmad Raza was entrusted with expanding D-Company’s business in Maharashtra and Gujarat and was targeting businessmen Dawood Ibrahim is the 'second richest criminal ever' after deceased Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar The D-Company works closely with Pakistan’s ISI and handles their illegal drugs business. Cash generated from the sales is then diverted to fund terror activities

New Delhi: In a big breakthrough for the Mumbai Police and the Indian government, D-Company's main hawala operator Ahmad Raza alias Afroz Vadaria was deported to India. Raza, a close aide of Chhota Shakeel and Faheem Machmach was handling D-Company's businesses in Surat, Mumbai and Thane.

Raza had expanded business in Surat and was targeting businessmen.

The Mumbai Police team had been tracking Raza from the past year and had also issued a look out circular (LOC) against him. The D-Company operative was detained in Dubai last month after which Indian agencies started the process to get him deported to India.

Crime Branch has also formed teams to locate his aides in Mumbai, Thane and Surat and currently he is being interrogated.

After getting Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) chief Masood Azhar listed as a global terrorist, India now has demanded the UN Security Council to take action against mafia don-turned terrorist Dawood Ibrahim and his D-Company terror organisation.

India's Permanent Representative Syed Akbaruddin also called Dawood a “real and present danger”.

Dawood has been working with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and has been accused of pumping fake Indian currency in the country apart from handling ISI’s illegal drugs business.

The D-Company smuggles fake currency notes through various border states like Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat.

Nepal serves as a transit point for the D-Company operatives to push fake notes in India.

Meanwhile, Pakistan is making an all-out effort to prevent the extradition of D-Company's top aide Jabir Motiwala to the United States.

During the hearing of Motiwala’s extradition plea, the D-Company's defence lawyer, backed by Pakistani diplomats, claimed that Motiwala was suffering from acute depression due to which he cannot be flown to the US to face money laundering, drug trafficking and underworld crime charges.

Motiwala was arrested in London on August 2018 on money laundering and drug trafficking charges.

Pakistan fears that if Motiwala is extradited to the US, he can reveal the entire nexus between Dawood Ibrahim's underworld network and the mafia don's connection with Pakistan's spy agency ISI.

Earlier, the Pakistan High Commission in London, on behalf of Motiwala’s lawyer, submitted a letter saying that he was a "well-known and respected businessman in Pakistan".

The US has already declared Dawood Ibrahim a global terrorist running multi-million dollar international drug syndicate.

The underworld don is also the "second richest criminal ever" after Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. The D-Company runs the piracy market apart from running an international betting syndicate out of Dubai.