PANAJI
Vinod Phadke, accused in the second case of misappropriation of Goa Cricket Association (GCA) funds worth Rs 1 crore, on Thursday deposed before the Economic Offence Cell (EOC) of Goa Police and stated that he has no knowledge of the irregularities in the GCA accounts.
EOC has booked GCA office bearers for the financial year 2006-07 comprising president Dayanand Narvekar, secretary Chetan Desai, treasurer Phadke and member Akbar Mulla for siphoning off Rs 1 crore worth TV subsidy received by GCA.
Fresh summons will be issued to Narvekar, Desai and Mulla, who failed to remain present before the investigating agency.
Preliminary investigation into the complaint filed by former Ranji player and GCA member Nilesh Prabhudessai had revealed that these office bearers, who were signatory authorities for GCA in the financial year 2006-07, hatched a criminal conspiracy from May 9, 2006 onwards and deposited a cheque of Rs 1 crore in a bank account opened fraudulently. The amount was later used to misappropriate the funds of TV subsidy sent by Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) to GCA thereby cheating the cricketing body of the amount of Rs 1 crore.
The hearing of the anticipatory bail applications filed by Mulla and Phadke will come up before the Panaji Sessions Court on December 27. On Thursday, Dessai also applied for anticipatory bail.
