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No chargesheet against Digambar but police seek custody

Though named ‘prime conspirator’ by the Crime Branch of Goa police in the Louis Berger International bribery case, former Chief Minister Digambar Kamat has not been chargesheeted even as the police has sought the custodial interrogation of Kamat who has secured anticipatory bail in the case.

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The news comes even as compelling evidence has emerged of Kamat’s role in the Louis Berger case. Sources from the Crime Branch have revealed that Kamat, who has all along denied that he had any role in the scandal, had in fact, made himself chairman of a high powered monitoring committee to oversee the JICA project.
“We have encountered a file where there is a handwritten note making the chief minister as the chairman of the committee,” a source familiar with the investigation said.
In their statement of reasons in the chargesheet 


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Chargesheet filed against Churchill and six others

The Goa Police Crime Branch has filed a chargesheet against seven accused persons in the Louis Berger case including Churchill Alemão, James McClung and Louis Berger Group Inc, based in New Jersey in the USA.

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Published Sep 29, 2015, 12:55 PM IST
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Chargesheet filed against Churchill and six others

PANAJIThe chargesheet under sections accuses the seven -- Churchill Alemão, Anand Wachasundar, Satyakam Mohanty, Raichand Soni, James McClung, Louis Berger Group Inc, USA and Arthur D’Silva, of charges under sections 7, 8, 9 and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act as well as sections 120B and 201 of the Indian Penal Code.Alemão was the former Minister for Public Works in the erstwhile Congress government and Anand Wachasundar was the project director of the JICA…

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