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PAPER SEIZURES: FLASHBACK
* Seized by Crime Branch soon after arrest of Churchill last year
* Papers of several vehicles also in custody of the Crime Branch
* Seizures made from the office of Churchill’s tax consultant
* Real estate, shipping co papers among the documents recovered
* Alemao is currently out on bail in the JICA bribery case
* He has been named in the chargesheet filed by the Crime Branch
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PANAJI: The special court under the prevention of corruption Act on Thursday rejected an application filed by scam accused Churchill Alemao to have his property papers back.
The property papers were seized by officials of the Crime Branch during raids they conducted soon after the former PWD Minister was arrested last year.
While the properties concerned are in the names of several members of the extended Alemao family as well as a company -- Sealink Marine and Shipping Company whose director is listed as Savio Alemao, Churchill’s son.
The application was filed by Churchill Alemao. Besides property papers, papers of several vehicles are also in the custody of the Crime Branch leading to suspicion that it was Churchill’s investments in these properties though registered in other names.
It is now expected that the Alemao family members in whose name the properties are will file separate applications for the release of the papers.
The properties in question are worth more than ₹15 crore.
The documents were seized from the office of Churchill’s tax consultant one Dayesh Naik at Vasco-da-Gama. Among the documents recovered included that of a real estate company registered at Candolim, as well as Sealink Marine and Shipping Company Pvt Ltd incorporated on August 12, 2010.
The company details show that it is registered at Alemao Mansion, Novangully Varca and directors include alen Savio Sydney Alemao, Tygano Warren Alemao, Reagan Braz Alemao and Maria Fatima Fernandes.
Police suspect that Alemao used ill gotten monies to invest in a property in Verna worth ₹2-crore registered in the name of Sealink Marine and Shipping.
Reliable sources have informed that the Alemao family may have ventured into the mining industry too during the peak years through the company Sealink Marine and Shipping Company.
Alemao is currently out on bail in the JICA case and has been named in the chargesheet filed by the Crime Branch before the Special Court.
An appeal filed against the order of the Bombay High Court at Goa granting anticipatory bail to former Chief MInister Digambar Kamat another accused in the case, is currently being heard by the Supreme Court.
Both Alemao and Kamat are named as prime accused in the $976,630 Louis Berger bribery scandal which rocked the State along with other officials of the company and a hawala dealer.Louis Berger International was part of a consortium of consultants for the ₹1200 crore augmentation of water supply and sewerage project in the State.
