Fai, ISI used code 'Brylcreem' for money transfers

'Brylcreem' and '30 plus' were some of the codes used for monetary transactions between Pakistan's snooping agency Inter-Services Intelligence and Kashmiri propagandist Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, who was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation recently.

In the affidavit submitted by the FBI, investigators said that Fai's Pakistani handler Javed Azeed Khan asked him if he had received all the goods. In reply Fai told him that everything has been received except "Brylcreem, 75 milligram".

FBI investigators suspected that this was a code for the transferring USD 75,000 demanded by Fai from his ISI-handlers for running Kashmiri propaganda in the US through his Kashmiri American Council unearthed by the American probe agency.

In the same conversation with Khan, Fai asked him to bring "two three pieces of Brylcreem" to London, which FBI suspects to be the demand of USD 20,000-30,000 from his Pakistani handlers.

Next year, Fai used different codes for demanding money from another handler Ahmed and this time it was the famous brand of energy capsule "30 plus". FBI believes that "30 plus" is a coded reference for supplying USD 30,000 for Fai.

The investigators said in their affidavit before the court that within three months of the conversation with Ahmed three cheques totalling USD 23,000 were deposited in Kashmiri American Council account between January 10 and March 28, 2011