Dahabshiil

Dahabshiil (Somali: Dahabshiil, Arabic: دهب شيل‎) is an international funds transfer company headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Formed in the early 1970s, the firm operates from over 24,000 outlets and employs more than 2,000 people across 144 countries. It provides a broad range of financial services to international organisations, as well as to both large and small businesses and private individuals. The company is also involved in numerous community building projects in Somalia.

In December 2011 the UK newspaper The Independent published the results of an undercover investigation of UK public relations firm Bell Pottinger. According to the Independent article, Bell Pottinger had cited its success at burying Internet reports concerning a Dahabshiil money transfer agent who had been detained in Guantanamo from 2002 to 2009.