News Desk: In a bid to apprehend the nexus of crime and terrorism in South Asian countries, the United States has cracked whip on Chhota Shakeel and Ibrahim Tiger Memon, the two top aides of underworld mafia Dawood Ibrahim.

Interpol has issued "red notices" (provisional arrest warrant) against Shakeel and Memon. As per the levied sanction, any property owned by the two in the US will be frozen and they will not be entitled to enter into any transaction with any US citizen.


The two criminals are top international narcotics traffickers who are responsible to run D Company as aides of the criminal company’s Chief Dawood Ibrahim, the treasury department of US has mentioned.


D Company is one of the world’s most notorious criminal organisations operated by its Kingpin Dawood Ibrahim, who is in the ‘top wanted’ (criminal) category in India for his alleged involvement as the mastermind of the Mumbai bombings which had killed at least 250 people in 1993. Dawood is believed to be sheltering in the Pakistani city of Karachi.


Adam Szubin, director of US treasury's office of foreign assets control has stated that Treasury continues to target the nexus of crime and terrorism in South Asia with the said action against one the world's most notorious criminal organizations.


About the criminal operations of the two, the Treasury department has informed that Chhota Sakeel, who is believed to be the top lieutenant of D Company, negotiates with other organized-crime and terror organizations while Tiger Memon another trusted lieutenant of the criminal company controls the organization's businesses across South Asia.


Tiger Memon is also wanted by the Indian authorities for his alleged involvement in the 1993 Mumbai bombings.


D Company is reportedly involved in international narcotics trafficking activities since the late 1980s and the organisation is very much active with different criminal activities in South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The company smuggles heroin and other narcotics from Afghanistan and traffics to Thailand, the US, Western Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa.

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