Nadeem Kashmiri to undergo polygraph test

The Karnataka police has proposed to subject Nadeem Kashmiri, who is accused of stealing confidential data pertaining to HSBC’s customers to illegally transfer their monies, to a polygraph test to establish the veracity of the statements made by him during the course of his interrogation.

Though Nadeem had confessed to receiving Rs 80,000 from his co-fraudsters in the UK for passing on the confidential information, the Corps of Detective (CoD) of Karnataka police has found out that the accused received around Rs 150,000 from them. “We have to find out whether what he has told us is the truth”, according a CoD official.

The CoD is preparing to subject Nadeem Kashmiri to polygraph or lie-detector test at the Forensic Sciences Laboratory in Bangalore after seeking necessary permission from the court on Monday.

HSBC officials have accused Nadeem Kashmiri and his accomplices in the UK of defrauding its customers to the tune of 322,000 pounds by stealing confidential information form the bank’s off-shore data processing centre in Bangalore.

“We have found that that he had received upto Rs 150,000 though he claimed to have received only Rs 80,000 through Western Union Money Transfer. But, the amount of money he had received is much more than that. He could have received money through the hawala route also”, a CoD official told reporters