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Underworld don and India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai bombings, figures third on the Forbes' Most Wanted list which has been topped by Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden.The list, carried in the latest edition of the Forbes magazine, also has Mexico's most powerful drug trafficker Joaquin Guzman in no.2.The magazine, which has been releasing a list of most wanted fugitives for the past three years, pointed out that Dawood, who is believed to be hiding in Pakistan, possibly had a hand in aiding LeT execute the 2008 Mumbai attacks and also shares smuggling routes with Al-Qaeda."Though the Pakistani government denies it, Ibrahim is probably in Pakistan, where he has important ties to the powerful intelligence service," it said.The article described Dawood as "the most wanted man in India" has for years led a 5,000-member criminal syndicate known as D-Company."The organised crime group has engaged in everything from narcotics to contract killing, working mostly in Pakistan, India and the United Arab Emirates," the magazine said.Bin Laden and Guzman hold their top ranks from Forbes' Most Wanted Fugitives list that first came out in 2008 but Dawood, the most wanted man in India for his suspected role in the 1993 Mumbai bombings that killed 257 people, has moved up from the fourth spot to the third.Hector Gonzalez, an FBI supervisory special agent, told Forbes: "Many of these criminals are hiding behind governments for protection."The article pointed out that since the 2008 list was published not a single one of the world's most notorious criminals has been brought to justice"The world has gotten smaller, and there has been globalisation of everything, including crime," said Bradley Bryant, the FBI's violent crimes unit chief."But the entire process of an international investigation takes longer. It can be a frustrating process and, sometimes, it is a lot slower than we would like it to be."Other criminals from the number four position onwards include: the Russian face of organized crime - Semion Mogilevich, Matteo Messina Denaro of the Italian mafia, Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, a Russian mobster originally from Uzbeikistan and Felicien Kabuga, who is believed to have financed the Rwandan genocide and head of the Lords Resistance Army in the Democratic Republic Congo - Joseph Kony.At number nine is, James Bulger, leader of Boston-based Winter Hill Gang, an Irish American family that controlled the illicit drug trade and extortion rackets.At number ten is Omid Tahvili, kingpin of a Persian organized crime family in Canada.After eight years, Bin Laden, who has a 25 million dollars bounty on his head, successfully continues to escape the manhunt."He is assumed to be hiding in Pakistan's tribal areas, but US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said in recent months that the U.S. does not have good intelligence on Bin Laden's whereabouts and it might be years before he is caught," Forbes said.
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