The not so curious case of Christian Pastor Ken Haywood

Mumbai/ Bangalore: Ken Haywood, the American national from whose Internet Protocol (IP) address the terror e-mail was sent prior to the Ahmedabad serial blasts, underwent lie detector tests on Wednesday, a senior police official said in Mumbai.

Maharashtra's Anti-Terror Squad
(ATS), which is probing the case, traced the e-mail to Haywood's flat in Navi Mumbai and found that his background and job were "of a slightly dubious nature". But the information available so far is not good enough to charge him or suggest his involvement in the case.

"We have conducted inquiries on Haywood's background and his company. These are of a slightly dubious nature, and even the company he works for and its office are a bit suspect," ATS chief Hemant Karkare told The Indian Express. "However, this does not directly link him with the case in any way. After all, having a suspicious background, or even working for a bogus company is not enough to book anyone for involvement in
terror activities," he added.

Haywood is supposed to be a corporate training manager and general manager with a company called Campbell White, which describes itself on
its website as a "premier executive soft skills trainer".

On the corporate side, Daniel Rubianes is the managing director of the company with its main office at the first floor of the M S Plaza in east
Bangalore. Rubianes, like many other employees of Campbell White, wears a second hat. On Thursdays and Sundays, he is pastor Dan Rubianes, the head of the Door Christian Centre — a church with origins in Arizona in the US but relatively new to India. Door Christian Centre is a part of the Pentecostal Christian Fellowship Ministries, also known as the Potter's House. Haywood is a functionary of the Potter's House in
Mumbai.

The Indian Express found that the Mumbai office of the MNC is located in two small adjoining rented rooms on the ground floor of Sanpada railway
station complex in Navi Mumbai. The two rooms also serve as prayer rooms on Sundays and Thursdays for the Potter's House. A notice pasted on the wall says the community service has been cancelled until further notice and is signed by Haywood.

Brother Richard D'Souza, the contact person for the centre, said, "We have been running our prayer service for the last one year from these premises. It is only this year that Campbell White opened its branch here." He said 20 students learn English from Haywood.

Campbell White has, meanwhile, removed details regarding its employees from its website to protect "workers and their families from malicious
intents by anyone". "Campbell White will continue to support police authorities with full cooperation... We have emphasised to them that they should work diligently and quickly to find suspects and bring them to justice so that Mr Haywood may return to his normal course of business," it says.

ATS officials raided Haywood's residence on July 27. Ten computers from neighbouring houses and Haywood's residence were sent to the Kalina
Forensic Science Laboratory for analysis.

Physical and Internet-based checks on other past and present employees of Campbell White like Scott Grabowska, a former Mumbai-based international protocol trainer, David Curwen-Walker, a senior operations
manager, and Jonathan Heimberg, a senior information services manager, both in Bangalore, have shown links to the church. For instance, Curwen-Walker and Heimberg head the Door churches at Kammanahalli and Koramangala in Bangalore.

However, Campbell White and the Door church officials have remained elusive on the links between the two entities. When contacted Michael
White, an Australia-based director for Campbell White, refused to comment on the India operations. "You must speak to Dan Rubianes in
Bangalore," he said.

Some churchgoers at the Door Christian Centre in Cox Town in Bangalore said Rubianes had left for the US on August 3 to attend a Bible
conference in Arizona.

"Campbell White is a business that pastor Dan runs. We as churchgoers are not aware of its nature," said Hemanth Kumar, an engineering
student, who has been associated with the church since it began three years ago. "Being American, pastors are equipped to work as accent trainers. In Bangalore, many such people work in churches," added Ravi Kumar, a member of the church in Bangalore. Incidentally, Joseph Campbell, who is listed as the US director of
Campbell White, is believed to be the seniormost pastor of the Door church in Arizona.

Source: Indian Express