Police interrogated an Indian businessman on Sunday after he was extradited from the United Arab Emirates amid suspicions that he tried to sell nuclear secrets, a senior police officer said. Indian police took custody of Dubai-based Akhtar Hussain Ahmed, 35, on Saturday, said Satyapal Singh, joint commissioner of the Bombay Police. Dubai authorities arrested Ahmed after he was allegedly caught trying to sell nuclear secrets to a foreign diplomatic mission, Singh said. Singh said police were investigating reports that one of Ahmed's brothers was a nuclear scientist in India. | Soon to be a very unhappy brother |
Bombay police have asked their Dubai counterparts to send documents seized from Ahmed and other information in their possession, Singh said. The United Arab Emirates, which has an extradition treaty with India, has surrendered several people who sought refuge there after committing offenses in India. The official Emirates News Agency reported late Saturday that Ahmed had contacted Arab embassies in the United Arab Emirates to try to sell Indian nuclear secrets. Ahmed had been under surveillance for several years after Arab embassies he had contacted reported him to police, the agency quoted Dubai police chief Lt. Gen. Dhahi Khalfan Tamim as saying. | "Pssssst, hey, want to buy secret plans?" |
Ahmed confessed to Dubai police that he wanted to exchange nuclear secrets for money, the agency quoted Tamim as saying. He said he was working alone and was not part of any organized network, Tamim said. | Maybe his brother brought his secret nuclear work home and hid them in his desk drawer and Ahmed made copies without his knowledge..... nope, not buying it. |
| Maybe he didn't install the latest Windows security patch. |
Dubai police officials could not immediately be reached Sunday for comment, and an Indian embassy spokesman said he was not able to comment because the embassy did not have all the details of the case.
| UPDATE: Looks like he was just a con man |
Lt Gen Dhahi said that security operatives made efforts to ascertain whether or not the man was acting alone or within an organised network. He also said that investigation teams verified that the man did not possess any materials or documents of a sensitive or dangerous nature. "Then, we decided to arrest him and extradite him to his home country, for his case to be treated in accordance with (Indian) rules and regulations. The case of this man and his brother are related to India's national security," said Lt Gen Dhahi. On interrogation, Akhtar said that his aim was to make financial gains. "He said he did not have any actual mechanism to transfer nuclear technologies from his brother to the countries with which he was seeking to establish contacts. But he made attempts to seize the opportunity that his brother was working with the Indian Nuclear Programme to stroke any deal that could bring him money", explained the police commander in chief. |