She added that Raissi was also wanted in the U.S. on charges of giving false information in connection with his application for a pilot's licence such as failure to declare he had a previous conviction for theft and that he had surgery on his knee.

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While the FBI has been trying to build its case over five months, Lotfi Raissi has been kept in Belmarsh Prison on holding charges, that on his application for an American pilot's licence, he failed to declare a knee injury and a teenage conviction for theft.

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