New Delhi: Commonwealth Games (CWG) Fifteen years after “Scam”, there is a special court in Delhi Accepted a closed report The Sports Organizing Committee and the former president of Congress leader Suresh Kalamdi were filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the money laundering case.
In January 2014, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a closed report against Kalamdi and others on equal allegations.
The allegations related to the two contracts award for CWG are related to the Game Workforce Service (GWS) and the Games Planning, Project and Risk Management Services (GPPRMS).
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The ED’s closure report stated that there was no offense under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), “due to the absence of income of crime”. It was said, because no “scheduled offense” was committed by the accused.
The Economic Intelligence Agency files a complaint under the PMLA to investigate allegations of money-laundering of income of crime. These income should be linked to a separate criminal offense allegedly committed by the person on which the ED files its independent complaint.
The PMLA, in turn, lists these separate offenses and laws in its schedule, and is called Scheduled Crime or Billi offense. In simple words, therefore, at least two cases usually move parallel – under a scheduled offense, and under another PMLA, for money laundering.
In this case, the original CBI case was already closed in 2016, after CBI filed a closed report in 2014. Accepting the closure report, the court’s 2016 order stated, “The allegations of investigation were not confirmed and to ensure technical specifications to the standard process and to look into a limited number of service provisions for this type of work.
However, only the ED case was closed through an order passed by Special Judge Sanjeev Aggarwal on Monday. The order seen by Theprint claims, “… PMLA, there is no crime of 2002.
The Games were hosted in Delhi from 3 to 14 October 2010. The report of a controller and Auditor General of India (CAG) was reported from that time that government processes were not followed to meet the delay in deadline. It had registered several FIRs by the CBI at that time.
Blame
The ED case was filed on the basis of the CBI FIR registered in August 2012, VKGAUTAM of Kalmadi, CWG VKGAUTAM, CWG Treasurer Akmatu, Sports Organizing Committee Lalit Bhanot General Secretary, Event Knowledge Service (EKS) Switzerland Crarand Gordan Melch, and other unknown persons.
The case included two important work contracts for the incident and allegations of misconduct in execution- Games Workforce Service (GWS) and Games Planning, Project and Risk Management Services (GPPRMS). It was alleged that the members of the Games Organizing Committee caused the “unfair peculiar advantage” to the EK and Ernsts and the Consortium of the Ernst and the Consortium, giving them two contracts prizes, causing a loss of Rs 30 crore to the organizing committee.
For the period from March 2007 to June 2007, EK was awarded two short -term contracts for GWS and GPPRMS for the initiative of KWS and GPPRMS.
CBI registered an FIR in 2012 by the event panel, after which the CBI registered an FIR in 2012. The ED also started an investigation on the basis of the registered case in 2013.
However, after less than two years, the CBI filed a closure report in January 2014, pointing to the lack of evidence during the investigation. The closure report was accepted by a special judge in Patiala House Court in February 2016.
The ED’s closure report said that its findings in the money laundering investigation were also in line with the CBI.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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