Rasheed and his aide, ex-councillor Muzaffar Ali, were remanded in judicial custody today.

In his six-page confession, a copy of which is with The Indian Express, Rasheed says that among those he paid in such deals are former TRS MP A Narendra, BSP MP Mohammad Tahir Khan from Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party MP Balchander Yadav, TRS MPs Madhusudan Reddy and Ravindra Naik, and MLAs Kasipeta Lingaiah, Soyam Babu Rao, and Ramalinga Reddy. He says there are some more MPs and MLAs he dealt with, but doesn’t remember their names.

More names could emerge, with sources saying that three of the seven passports recovered from Rasheed’s house are of Congress legislators from Andhra Pradesh.

Rasheed says in the confession that the first MP he worked with was A Narendra, to whom he was introduced by one Mazherbhai.

“He (Mazherbhai) introduced me to A Narendra and I introduced the concept of human trafficking by getting the recommendation letter from MLA/MP and obtained visas to USA in the names of wife and children of said MLP MP and he agreed to it and gave me three recommendation letters and his original passport,” he says in the confession.

He says he gave the passport to one Shakeel, who introduced him to this business. Shakeel asked him to wait three months, and gave it to one Afum J Yousef, who had “certain Gujarati persons” sent abroad on the passport. Later, Yousef too went to the US.

Rasheed says his next contacts were ex-Telugu Desam MP Suguna Kumari and TDP

former state minister Nirmala Kistappa. He says he paid Suguna Kumari an advance of Rs 8 lakh for sending eight Gujaratis to the US. She took them to the US Consulate but their visa applications were rejected. He alleges that she never returned the money.

Rasheed said that while Kistappa’s passports were being used, a task force raided his office in an illegal emigration case and he was sent to jail. That case is still on trail, and he is out on bail.

After this, he says he moved operations to New Delhi. Here again, he says he met Narendra, who was a Central minister at the time and gave him the passports of Madhusudan Reddy and Ravindra Naik and asked him to arrange for some clients. Naik, he says, gave him some blank letterheads, which he handed to one “Bilal and his friend” , who used them to arrange visas to Taiwan and Japan.

Then, he says in the confession, TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao’s personal assistant K Rama Murty introduced him to “one Sunder Lal Yadav who is BSP leader (sic). He in turn introduced me to Balchand Yadav, MP Sultanpur at 155, North Avenue, New Delhi.” He further says, “I have paid an amount of Rs 3 lakh advance to Balchand Yadav for arranging visas for one lady and two children. After a week, he called me and demanded his original passport back and refused to work with me as he was involved in some problem.”