Updated On: 04 November, 2025 01:20 PM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
Indian agencies have intensified their crackdown on Dawood Ibrahim’s ISI-backed narcotics network. Reports reveal that the D-syndicate has shifted its drug operations to Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia, aiming to evade FATF scrutiny and expand smuggling routes into India and beyond

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In a very surprising yet interesting finding, the Indian agencies have been tightening the noose around the narcotics business that is under the complete control of ISI-backed Dawood Ibrahim. Considering the fact that narcotics, for long, have been a major tool for the ISI to fund its terror infrastructure. The agencies are now more vigilant as the Dawood gang expands its network to cover the losses it has been incurring in recent times, as reported by the news agency IANS.
The Dawood gang, involved in illegal narcotic business, also known as the D-syndicate, has now set up shop in Bangladesh and also plans expansion into Saudi Arabia to further its narcotics trade.