A Delhi courtroom on Monday accepted the ED’s closure report in a cash laundering case towards Suresh Kalmadi, the previous head of the 2010 Commonwealth Video games organising committee, its then secretary common Lalit Bhanot and others.
This brings to finish the cash laundering angle within the alleged rip-off, which triggered an enormous political uproar throughout the Congress-led UPA authorities.
Kalmadi faces one other corruption case linked to the CWG Video games, during which the CBI has accused him of irregularities in awarding a contract to a Swiss agency, allegedly inflicting a lack of greater than `90 crore to the exchequer. On this case, he was arrested on April 24, 2011 and, 9 months later, granted bail by the Delhi Excessive Court docket.
On Monday, Rouse Avenue Court docket Particular Decide Sanjeev Aggarwal stated in his order: “Since throughout the investigations, the prosecution has did not make out a offence below part 3 (cash laundering) of the PMLA… as no offence below part 3 of the PMLA has been made out or has been dedicated, regardless of discreet investigations by the ED, due to this fact, there is no such thing as a cause to proceed with the current ECIR, as a consequence, the closure report filed by the ED stands accepted.”
Whereas accepting the ED’s closure report, the courtroom famous that the CBI had already closed the corruption case primarily based on which the ED had began its cash laundering probe. On this case, the CBI had additionally named as accused the then COO of the CWG organising committee, Vijay Kumar Gautam, its then treasurer A Ok Matto and Occasion Data Companies, Switzerland, amongst others.
Kalmadi and the others have been accused of awarding two key contracts in a “wrongful method” to Occasion Data Companies (EKS) and Ernst and Younger, allegedly inflicting a lack of `30 crore to the CWG organising panel.
The CBI’s closure report — it said that “no incriminating proof surfaced throughout the investigation within the matter” — was filed in January 2014 and was accepted by a Delhi courtroom in February 2016.