  We calculate the 1/$m^3_c$ corrections in the inclusive semileptonic widths
of $D$ mesons. We show that these are due to the novel penguin type operators
that appear at this level in the transition operator. Taking into account the
nonperturbative corrections leads to the predicted value of the semileptonic
width significantly lower than the experimental value. The $1/m^3_c$ worsen the
situation or at the very least, within uncertainty, give small contribution. We
indicate possible ways out. It seems most probable that violations of duality
are noticeable in the energy range characteristic to the inclusive decays in
the charm family. Theoretically these deviations are related to divergence of
the high-order terms in the power expansion in the inverse heavy quark mass.
