A US company with the same name as an Indian airline scheduled to begin flights to the US on June 23 has alleged that the Indian company is tied to al-Qaeda.

Jet Airways of India, based in Mumbai, currently has a 43 percent share of the domestic market in India and in it’s last phase of global expansion, has been accused of ties to al-Qaeda by Jet Airways of Maryland in the US in a complaint filed with the US department of transportation.

In its complaint, the US company alleges that the Indian company has ties to Dawood Ibrahim, an Indian gangster, and through him to al-Qaeda, and that allowing the Indian company to operate in the US would give al-Qaeda access to the US to carry out its terrorist activities.

Jet Airways of India says that the US company does no business but merely has rented a suite of offices, and that the real issue is over the similar trade-name of the two companies. The Indian company has filed a rebuttal to the charges with the department of transportation, and they say they hope to meet their launch date despite the claim from the US company.