"The application for cancellation of the anticipatory bail granted to accused Digamber Kamat is pending before Supreme Court.
"Hence investigation in respect of accused Digamber Kamat could not be completed as his custodial interrogation is essential to unearth the deep rooted conspiracy," Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar said in a written reply yesterday to a question tabled by Kamat on the floor of the House.
Kamat is presently a Congress MLA from Margao seat.
The case was filed on July 21, 2015, by state Home department against Kamat, ex-PWD Minister Churchill Alemao and other officials, including those of US-based Louis Berger firm and also JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency).
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The US firm has been charged with bribing Indian officials with several crores of rupees to win two major water developmental projects in Goa and Guwahati.
The Rs 1,031-crore project, funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), was approved when Digamber Kamat government was in power, for augmenting water supply in south Goa and laying sewerage lines in the state's major cities.
Parsekar told the House that during the course of investigation, the former officials of Louis Berger, in their statements recorded before a magistrate, confessed about approximate bribes allegedly paid to the then CM Digamber Kamat and then PWD Minister Churchill Alemao amounting to Rs 1.20 crore and 75 lakh, respectively.
"Further, section 201 IPC was added to the present crime, as the accused Digamber Kamat influenced government officials to manipulate RTI information (related to the case) for facilitating him during arguments in anticipatory bail application," he said in the written reply.