Assets of Headley in crores spread across US, Pak and Gulf

Asian Defense News: MUMBAI: With investigators ready to file chargesheet in Headley-Rana case, security agencies have found that the American terror suspect had assets running into crores of rupees in Pakistan, the US and a Gulf nation.

There were indications that Headley was into the real estate business in a Gulf country as per documents procured by the security agencies and the National Investigating Agency (NIA), probing the role of Headley and his Pakistani-Canadian accomplice Tahawwur Rana.

According to sources privy to the investigations, the 49-year-old Headley owns palatial houses in Pakistan and the US besides flats in a Gulf country and vast estate land running into several crores of rupees.

The sources said the probe findings were an eye-opener as the investigators were trying to ascertain the financial transactions of Headley, who was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Chicago on October three last year.

The investigators were trailing the credit card payments made by Headley, charged by the FBI with conspiring in the 26/11 attacks, while he was staying in Mumbai and travelling in rest of the country including Delhi, Ajmer, Goa and Pune.

While majority of transactions were carried out by Headley with cash only, he had used his credit cards including an American Express card for purchases in Mumbai and paying hotel bills at five-star hotels in the megapolis.

Source: 24 Jan 2010, 1427 hrs IST, PTI