December 26, 1955 - Dawood Ibrahim
From a street-level criminal network founded in Mumbai, Ibrahim built D-Company into an international operation spanning drug trafficking, extortion, and contract violence — eventually crossing into territory that brought him to the attention of the United Nations Security Council. His designation as a global terrorist rests largely on his alleged role in coordinating the 1993 Bombay bombings, a coordinated series of attacks that killed over 250 people and marked a significant escalation in the intersection of organized crime and mass political violence. Decades later, he remains at large, a rare figure whose significance is recognized equally by law enforcement agencies, counterterrorism bodies, and organized crime analysts.
From Wikipedia
Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar ( ; born 26 December 1955) is an Indian gangster, mob boss, drug lord and narcoterrorist. He is the leader of the organised crime syndicate D-Company, which he founded in Mumbai in the 1970s. Ibrahim is wanted on multiple charges of murder, extortion, targeted killing, drug trafficking and terrorism among others.
He has been reported to live in Karachi, Pakistan, though the government of Pakistan denies it.
He was designated a global terrorist by the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council and by the United States in 2003 for masterminding the 1993 Bombay bombings and is said to have an influence in 26/11 attacks. The United States has a bounty of US$25 million on his head.
In a Time list of the world's most notorious mob bosses, Ibrahim was ranked 9th. Ibrahim was third on Forbes' "The World's 10 Most Wanted" list from 2010 until it stopped publishing the list in 2011.
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