For past few months, underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his core team were flustered about their funds routed through various countries but actually going nowhere. They thought that someone from their own gang went away with the money. They suspected that they were being cheated by their own men, who were going rogue.

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Now, it has emerged that it was the government of India, which was tracking their business in several countries and was working behind the curtain to cripple the Dawood gang. According to intelligence agencies, Dawood was not cheated Rs 40 crore over the past two years by his men, but the government of India got several of his transactions in UAE, Canada, UK and Australia seized.

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The Indian government has managed, the agencies claim, to make governments of many countries agree to keep a track on Dawood's business activities and transactions. These also agreed to share details of bigger transactions of Dawood with the Indian agencies.

In the last two years, the Indian agencies have been successful in getting five to six hawala transactions seized in Dubai, Canada, UK and Australia. One such transaction was frozen by a bank in UAE, suspecting it to be hawala money. This particular transaction was routed through India-Dubai-Canada-Dubai-India.

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When agencies got suspicious of this transaction, the bank was asked about the credentials of the end person. It was never provided and under pressure from the Indian agencies, the transaction money was shifted to some sundry accounts in parts.

For months, the Dawood gang thought that such transactions were being routed to some rogue elements from within. Later, when it realized that the banks acted in such a manner on pursuance of the Indian agencies, the D-gang fell silent.

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Now, the gang is learnt to have narrowed down its hawala business to an exclusive group of confidants and only through secure banks availing different routes. Secondly, they have resorted to making payments in conflict diamonds besides adopting other means.

On the other hand, the intelligence agencies are now tracking these front-men of Dawood in India and other countries to bring them to law and extract information about new means of transaction and new modes of operation.

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