Michigan man seeks reward for tipping US on Laden's hideout in 2003

A Michigan man has claimed of tipping the U.S. federal investigators about slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan years before he was killed in a secret mission of Navy SEALs n May 2011.

Tom Lee, a 63-year-old gem merchant from Grand Rapids, is seeking a 25 million dollars reward for allegedly reporting the location of Laden's Abbottabad compound in 2003, Fox News reports.

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A letter was sent to the FBI Director James Comey in August from a Chicago-based law firm Loevy and Loevy representing Lee.

The letter also revealed that a Pakistani intelligence agent told Lee that he escorted Laden and his family from Peshawar to Abbottabad, the report added.