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SSPC Paper 4 SSPC Paper 4 December 2005 A Shift from Crime to Terrorism: Assessing D-Company AJEY V LELE Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict fostering ideas, research and dialogue… Ajey V Lele About the Author AJEY V LELE Research Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi © 2005 Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict, New Delhi. Please direct inquiries to: Research Coordinator Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict Post Box No. 10560, JNU Old Campus, New Delhi Pin-110067 (INDIA) [email protected] www.sspconline.org This publication can be downloaded for free at: www.sspconline.org SSPC Paper SSPC Paper presents research findings by the in-house scholars and colleagues from other institutions and independent analysts. It also aims to include ongoing research and key excerpts from larger works/projects in progress on the core research themes of the Society. Comments from readers are welcome. Feel free to reply/contact at the mailing address or email above. Disclaimer The opinions, conclusions, and recommendations expressed or implied within are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict or the Organisation She/He belongs. Portions of this work may be quoted or reprinted with permission and with credit to the Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict, New Delhi. A courtesy copy of any reviews and tear sheets would be appreciated. SSPC Paper 2 A Shift from Crime to Terrorism: Assessing D-Company Modern era has witnessed an enormous growth in transnational organized crime. Over the years such crime groups have covertly provided arms and ammunition to terrorist groups purely for business interests. However, the difference between organized crime and terrorism has blurred in last few years. Few crime organizations have shown a tendency of involving themselves in terrorist activities for non-profit reasons. This paper offers an analysis of the causes behind the changing philosophy and practices of one of the well-known crime organizations from India to move closer towards terrorism to support its criminal activities. The discussion is based on a specific case study carried out with the help of a ‘Model of criminal-terrorist relations’. he current literature on threats are designated as non-military terrorism is wide-ranging both threats (NMTs). In the Indian context it T in its themes and perspectives could be apt to describe the ‘underworld’ and has expanded threat as an ‘Asymmetric Threat’ because exponentially over the past of its potential to seriously challenge state few years. Other than conventional issues, authority by directly involving itself in some related issues, viz: terrorism and violence. media, terrorism and foreign policy, and This article explores the dynamics and terrorism and world history, are often scope of ‘underworld’ related threat to explored by social scientists. But the India’s security while examining the case relation between terrorism and counter- of ‘D-Company’.3 This article while trying, terrorism in connection with criminal to establish the linkage between crime activity is one area, which remains under- groups and terrorist organizations, also explored. The reasons for this could be focuses on the shift of a crime group to many, but the most important one is be the that of a terrorist organization. Before direct involvement of criminals in aiding studying any particular crime organization and abetting state/non-state actors it is important to appreciate in general the (NSAs). This is relatively a new nature of organized crime; it’s structure phenomenon. Since terrorism was and linkages during the last decade. connected more readily with political, legal and military issues, hence in the past a Crime and Terror Nexus need was not felt for juxtaposing 1 Crime is defined as an evil act punishable criminology on terrorism. by law.4 Groups indulging in criminal India has been a victim of terrorism for activities have existed since time more than a decade. Recent studies on immemorial. However, there is an increase Indian security concentrate on terrorism. in organized and associated forms of Most of the literatures are centered on the crime at both the local and regional levels study of traditional threats vis-à-vis in recent years. Further, the nature of terrorism. Such an approach fails to crimes increasingly influenced by the decipher threats, which are related to globalization of criminal activities gives an organized crime2 or the ‘underworld’. Such to obtain, directly, or indirectly, a financial or other material benefit. 1 Mathieu Deflem, “Introduction: Towards a 3 ‘D-Company’ is the working name for the Criminological Sociology of Terrorism and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar’s Counter-Terrorism" in Terrorism and Counter- widespread crime network across Middle East Terrorism: Criminological Perspectives, Elsevier and South Asia. Science, Oxford, 2004, pp.1-6. 4 Crime means ‘breaking of law’. The definition 2 As per the United Nations Convention Against officially labels people and separate society into Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo, Italy, criminal and non-criminal categories. In other 12-15 December 2000): “Organized Criminal words, criminality is a social status determined groups shall mean a structured group of three or by the way an individual is perceived, evaluated more persons existing for a period of time and and treated by the legal authorities. See, acting in concert with the aim of committing one Richard Quinines, The Social Reality of Crime, or more serious crimes or offences […] in order Little Brown, Boston, 1970, p.7. SSPC Paper 3 Ajey V Lele added dimension. This is not to say that reduction in the state funding for few globalization of criminal activities is a terrorist groups over the past decade has novel phenomenon. The UN crime and forced them to undertake criminal activities justice statistics has been documenting to generate finances for their operations. various categories of crimes since 1853.5 Three significant characteristics of However, there is a marked change in the organized crime have emerged at the end behavioral pattern and nature of of the 20th century: 1) the traditional operations within the terrorist groups criminal activity, 2) growth of traditional operating today. links between criminal organizations and Currently, the international criminal other groups and 3) the growing ability and organizations/ syndicates are taking full power of international criminal advantage of globalization of world organizations to threaten the stability of markets, dismantling of trade barriers, and states by undermining institutions and increased ease of international travel, economy.7 The D-Company, which is a liberalized emigration policies, high-tech transnational criminal organization, has all communication equipments and the above-mentioned characteristics. This sophisticated money laundering organization with its roots in India, is techniques to enhance and further their presently operating from various places in criminal efforts and forge alliances with South Asia and Middle East. Even though other criminal groups. Looking at very the leader of the organization is currently means, techniques and strategies of such Karachi-based, its network is active in the criminal organizations, it may be well port city of Mumbai, India’s commercial contained within the limits of terrorism. hub. To analyze the reach of D-Company, Arguably, the empires of crime it is essential to have an overview of the organizations have grown beyond the growth of the Mumbai-Mafia over the routine crime activities like narcotics, arms years. It is also essential to examine the trafficking, money laundering, contract terrorist modus operandi of the past as killing and immoral trafficking. Some state well as the current crime groups operating and non-state actors have found it from Mumbai. convenient to utilize/hire them in order to Mumbai: Mafia Epicenter of India 8 pursue their own agenda. Again, criminal organizations have started cooperating Although various criminal gangs have with state/non-state actors in order to been operating in India, there is no protect their ‘business interests’. These authentic data available to indicate the activities are definitely a threat to the number of organized criminal gangs, their national and international security and modus operandi and areas of operations. hence it can come within the ambit of Their structures and leadership patterns ‘crime affecting security’.6 Similarly, the may not strictly fall in the classical Italian Mafia module. They may sometimes be operating in loose structures, but the 5 A short history of the collection of the UN crime and justice statistics at the international level is depredations of such criminal gangs are available in Graeme Newman, (ed), Global too well known. However, the purpose of Report on Crime and Justice, United Nations organized crime in India, as elsewhere in Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, 1999. The history along with summaries of the chapters can be accessed at, URL http://www.uncjin.org/Special/GlobalReport.html 7 Roy Godson and W. J. Olson, International 6 There are also incidences of terrorist Organized Crime: Emerging Threat to US organizations to be hand in glove with criminal Security, National Strategy Information Center, organizations. The best-known example is Sri Washington DC, 1993, p.7. Lanka’s Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam 8 This section followed various works on (LTTE). It is widely believed that the LTTE helps organized criminal activity in India, taking the finance its insurgency through drug trafficking. lead from Sanjiv Kumar Upadhyay, “Crime in International Narcotics Control Strategy Report: India” UNAFEI, December 2001, pp.197-207. 1997, released by the Bureau for International This paper was presented at The United Nations Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S.
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