'Suspects had remitted cash from U.S.'

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, SEPT. 25. The City Police have found that the two Old City-based suspects, Mir Ayoob Ali Khan and Mohammed Ajmat Jaweed, arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had remitted huge amounts of money from the U.S. to their respective families in India from January 1999 till their arrest.

Following these revelations, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence had taken into custody another person based in the city.

The City Police Commissioner, Mr. P. Ramulu, today said that while Ayoob Khan had sent Rs. 19 lakhs between 1999 and 2001, Jaweed remitted Rs. 9 lakhs during the same period.

In September 2000 alone, Ayoob Khan had sent Rs. 9 lakhs in three installments, about which the police had become suspicious. Both Ayoob Khan and Jaweed were working as assistants in a shop in the U.S..

The City Police has communicated the details of the transactions to the FBI.

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