New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) A day after the arrest of three people, including two government officials, in the leakage of confidential documents related to foreign investments in the finance and commerce ministries, the CBI conducted raids at two places in Mumbai on Friday and recovered several government files.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday raided the office of a Mumbai-based chartered accountant (CA) Mitesh J. Majithia and another place.
The CBI on Thursday filed a case and raided eight places, including offices of various ministries and private establishments, in New Delhi and Mumbai, and arrested an under secretary from department of disinvestment and grievances Ashok Kumar Singh along with section officer of Economic Affairs Lala Ram Sharma from Delhi.
A charter accountant Khemchand Gandhi was also arrested from Mumbai.
Singh and Sharma were on Friday produced before a special CBI court here, which remanded them to five days police custody. Gandhi, who was produced in a Mumbai court, was granted transit remand for three days.
The CBI booked them under charges of criminal conspiracy, theft and Prevention of Corruption Act.
"There was allegations that Gandhi had been procuring confidential government documents of ministry of finance and ministry of commerce pertaining to the foreign investment proposals and passing them to corporate groups," said a CBI official.
The official said Gandhi was allegedly procuring the confidential documents through courier and e-mail from some government officials, who were custodians of these documents and were initiating proposals.
"It was further alleged that money was being received by the accused officials in lieu of supply of the documents to Gandhi," the official said.
"We recovered the copies of proposals before the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), minutes of meetings, internal noting of files stored in computers, laptops as well as mobile phones during search operations," he said.
The CBI has also intercepted the copies of confidential official documents allegedly sent through courier from Delhi by the arrested government officials to Gandhi.
"Certain documents relating to properties acquired by the public servants are being scrutinised. The investigation has so far revealed an alleged nexus between the accused officials and Gandhi who was in regular touch with certain unknown persons of other departments," the official added.
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