Dawood Ibrahim's close aide Salim Dola brought to India after deportation from Istanbul

A top operative in one of the world's most wanted crime syndicates has been brought to India in a stunning capture that marks a rare breach in the fugitive network's fortress of protection across South Asia and the Middle East. Salim Dola, a trusted lieutenant of Dawood Ibrahim—the Mumbai underworld boss whose D-Company has orchestrated everything from the 1993 bombings to international drug trafficking—was extradited from Turkey after years of eluding Indian intelligence agencies. The deportation exposes widening cracks in the criminal enterprise's traditionally impenetrable international infrastructure and could provide investigators with unprecedented access to the inner workings of a transnational organization that has evaded accountability for three decades

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