The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has sent a five-member team to Dubai on February 25, to investigate cases related to the involvement of Dawood Ibrahim and his cartel, known as D company, in running global terrorist networks and a transnational organised crime syndicate that involves smuggling and hawala extortion, The Indian Express reports. The five-member team comprises officials from the NIA, Intelligence Bureau (IB), Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). The team is looking into various aspects of money laundering and terror funding by the D-Company. The NIA had in November 2022, filed a chargesheet naming Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and his associates which stated, “They raised, collected and extorted huge amounts of money by threatening and by putting person(s) in fear of death or grievous hurt, for the D-Company, for the benefit of an individual terrorist (Dawood Ibrahim) in the instant case, and with the intention to threaten the security of India and create terror in the minds of the general public.”