Salim Qureshi, alias Salim Fruit, a member of the Dawood Ibrahim gang, was arrested on August 4, by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for suspectedly aiding the gang's terrorist activities, reports news9live.com. According to the NIA, he was a close associate of Chota Shakeel. According to the probe agency, Qureshi was actively involved in extorting large sums of money in Shakeel's name from property transactions and dispute settlements to raise terror funds in furtherance of terrorist activities of D Company. The NIA said Dawood Ibrahim and his associates engaged in terrorist and criminal activities such as smuggling, narco-terrorism, money laundering, circulation of counterfeit currency, raising terror funds, and working in active collaboration with international terrorist organisations such as Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Al Qaeda.