Crores in cash, gold found in CBI raids on national highway authority officials, others
India Today
The federal probe agency filed a case against nine officials of the NHAI, including general managers, project directors, managers and 13 others on corruption charges in three national highway projects, officials told India Today TV.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which raided the premises of the National Highway Authority of India’s officials and others, found Rs 1.1 crore in cash, fixed deposit receipts amounting to Rs 49.1 lakh and gold jewelleries worth Rs 4.5 crore. The agency was probing a corruption case pertaining to three national highway projects.
The federal probe agency filed a case against nine officials of the NHAI, including general managers, project directors, managers and 13 others on corruption charges in three national highway projects, officials told India Today TV.
Apart from NHAI officials, the CBI also named private individuals, companies and unknown officials as accused in the case.
According to the CBI’s FIR, between 2008 and 2010, three projects - the Surat-Hazira Port Section of NH-6, the Kishangarh-Ajmer-Beawar Section of NH-8 and the Varanasi-Aurangabad Section of NH-2 - were awarded by the NHAI to a consortium of private companies for these projects.
“It was further alleged that during the execution of these three projects, the NHAI officers accepted money from private companies. It was also alleged that the cash was facilitated by sub-contractors of private companies by falsifying their books of accounts,” the officials said.
The CBI officials raided residential and official premises of the accused across 22 locations in Delhi, Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
“Multiple property documents in the name of NHAI officers were also found,” the CBI said in a release.
