India | Posted on Dec 11, 2008 at 03:57pm IST

Terror money trail, phone calls point to Pak

Toral VariaToral Varia, CNN-IBN

Mumbai: Officials investigating Mumbai terror attacks have found more evidence to substantiate its Pakistan terror link claim.

Investigators say they’ve traced communications between the terrorists involved in the attack and their handlers back to Pakistan.

Earlier, they had traced e-mails, GPS coordinates and satellite phone conversations to Pakistan. And now investigations into the funding for the deadly 26/11 terror attack, has led sleuths to a Karachi-based branch of a global money transfer giant.

Sources have told CNN-IBN that a payment for the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) account of VoX Phone has been traced to Karachi

An account with the money transfer giant was created using fake identification to make a payment of £300 dollars to VoX phone's Orlando branch.

Two international numbers were purchased from Vox Phone — one with a New Jersey registration and the other with a Vienna registration.

Investigators believe that the account has only been used once by the yet-unidentified associate of the terrorists.

These numbers were later used by the terrorists to contact and take instructions from their controllers during the attack.

VoIP is a technology that enables a person to make and receive phone calls through the Internet.

Voice is converted into packets of data sent over the Internet through a broadband connection, and reassembled at the other end of the line.

In this case, investigating team has recorded conversations between the terrorists and their chief, which in itself is a damning evidence of Pakistani involvement.

Meanwhile, Mumbai crime branch officials have started underground combing operations to investigate any possible local link.

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