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Headley says RBI rejected his application to open business account

| | Feb 11, 2016, at 05:30 pm
Mumbai, Feb 11 (IBNS) Deposing before a Mumbai court on Thursday for the third day from a US prison cell, David Coleman Headley, a key accused of 26/11 Mumbai attack, told the court that the Reserve Bank of India had revoked his application to open a business account in the country with the funds from terror groups and ISI, according to reports.

Headley, who is serving jail term in the US, spoke from an undisclosed location and said that he had received funds from both Laskhar-e-Toiba and Pakistan spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to arrange for Indian Army personnel to spy for Pakistan.

He said that Raymond Sanders, the man who helped him with his Visa had also helped him with the RBI formalities but was eventually rejected by the highest governing body in India.

So far, the interrogation has yielded a lot of information regarding the plan and motives of attack in India.

According to his testimony, the LeT's 26/11 Mumbai attack was the third such take after two previously foiled attack.
     
Headley also mentioned ISI's involvement in the whole saga.

He also confirmed Hafeez Saeed as the LeT mastermind and the man who trained him along with Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhavi.

Speaking about his tryst with the fringe outfit, he had said that he joined the unit in 2002 after getting inspired by Saeed's speech, who urged them to carry a jihad against India.

The conversation also yielded his handler Sajid Mir's name, on whose behest Headley changed his name.  

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