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Summary TheCBI has recorded Indian Army Chief General VK Singhs statement in Tatra truck scam.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday reached Army Chief General VK Singhs office to record his statement in connection with the Tatra truck deal. The Army Chief blew the lid off the alleged scam after he alleged in March that he’d been offered Rs 14 crore bribe to clear a deal for supplying sub-standard Tatra trucks.Earlier, the CBI on Wednesday searched the homes of two former army officers in Delhi and Noida and recovered key documents related to the probe into alleged irregularities in the procurement of Tatra trucks for the Indian Army, sources said.The CBI sources said raids were conducted at the homes of Brig (r) PC Das in south Delhi and Col (r) Anil Datta in Noida.The Army in a March 5 press release took the names of Tatra and BEML, alleging that Lt Gen (r) Tejinder Singh had offered a bribe on behalf of Tatra and Vectra.The probe agency was probing why BEML decided to procure Tatra parts from Tatra Sipox (Britain), a private company, from 1997 when it was doing so through Omnipol (a state-owned unit in Czech Republic) since 1986.The sources said CBI was trying to find out why BEML officials signed an agreement with Tatra Sipox (Britain) in a hurried manner June 14, 1997 in Bangalore, three days after they had a meeting with the firm and its associate companies’ officials in Slovakia. One more company, Venus Projects Ltd., in which Rishi allegedly has some stakes, was under the CBI scanner as he allegedly used it for purchasing spare parts for Tatra trucks, they said.
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