CBI sources claimed they have recovered a forged gate pass showing dispatch of an allegedly non-existent order during the searches at Ratan Prakashan Mandir and Ravi Offset Printer in connection with the bribery scandal allegedly involving Rajendra Kumar who has been suspended following his arrest.
They said they believed that Rs 80 lakh was transferred to publisher showing it as payment by ESPL for a fake supply order of books and stationery which is believed to have never been made.
They said the accused persons who have been arrested in the case will now be confronted with the evidence found during the searches last weekend.
"The special court has remanded all the seven accused persons in three days of police custody," CBI spokesperson R K Gaur said here today.
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The sources said the agency has now gathered money trail of the alleged bribe amount with some of it invested in real estate and some diverted to other avenues.
The charges pressed by the CBI are under sections 120-B of IPC (criminal conspiracy), and 13(2), 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act (Criminal conspiracy, criminal misconduct etc) for allegedly favouring the private company Endeavour Systems Pvt. Ltd. In bagging contracts.
Kumar, a 1989 batch IAS officer of UT cadre, Deputy Secretary in Kejriwal's office Tarun Sharma, Kumar's close aide Ashok Kumar and owners of a private firm Sandeep Kumar and Dinesh Kumar Gupta, R S Kaushik and his predecessor G K Nanda, present and the former Managing Directors of a PSU respectively have been arrested by CBI.
CBI has alleged that the accused persons had entered into a criminal conspiracy and caused a loss of Rs 12 crore to the Delhi government in award of contracts between 2007 and 2015, and claimed that the officials had taken "undue benefit" of over Rs three crore while awarding the contracts.