CWG probe: CBI raids premises of Kalmadi in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune
Intensifying its probe into allegations of financial irregularities and wrongdoings during the conduct and organisation of the Commonwealth Games in the Capital, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday searched residences and official premises of CWG Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi in Delhi, Mumbai and Pune.
The CBI move to conduct simultaneous raids in three cities on Mr. Kalmadi’s residences and offices came about a month after the agency registered three FIRs for alleged offences of forgery of court records and public documents, criminal conspiracy and corruption and cheating in awarding some contracts for CWG 2010. The agency has already made three arrests while probing the CWG scam.
The agency also searched the premises of Mr. Kalmadi’s personal secretary Manoj Bhure in Pune, his farm house at Khadakwasla near Pune and the “Sai Service” petrol station owned by him in Pune.
Mr. Kalmadi, who was removed as Secretary of the Congress Parliamentary Party recently, was also questioned about some documents during the searches, official sources said. After the searches, the agency called his close aide Shekhar for questioning to its headquarters here, the sources said.
“CBI on Friday carried out search of the office and residences of the Chairman of the OC of CWG 2010 and his personal secretary in Delhi, Pune and Mumbai as part of the ongoing investigation into the allegation of award of video installation work for the Queen’s Baton Relay to a London-based private firm at inflated rates,” Vineeta Thakur, CBI spokesperson and a Deputy Inspector General (DIG), told reporters here. Several documents recovered during searches were being scrutinised, she added.
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