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CVC to probe NTPC-BHEL bribe allegations
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merisarkar news service
New Delhi, July 08, 2010 |
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We will probe NTPC/BHEL Bribe allegations: CVC
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The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) on Thursday said that it will look into the allegations of bribery against officials of state-owned NTPC and BHEL once their names are disclosed by the US Department of Justice.
"We have our chief vigilance officers in all organisations and they are supposed to carry out their job," the CVC's chief technical examiner, V Ramachandran, told media. He said that the commission will scrutinize all the matters whenever it is brought to its notice.
Mr. Ramachandran said this while responding to queries on the documents presented by the US Department of Justice in an American court stating that California-based Control Component Inc had bribed officials of Indian PSUs, including BHEL, NTPC and several state electricity boards, to bag orders.
California-based Control Component Inc (CCI) on 31 June, 2009, pleaded guilty before the US court to having committing bribery in 36 countries from 2003 to 2007.
While NTPC denied any involvement in the case, BHEL declined to comment on the news reports saying lack of proper information.
"For the Sipat project (in Chhattisgarh), NTPC has not placed any direct order on the said company. NTPC is also not a party in the contract between any of the manufacturers and its equipment suppliers, i.e. the said party Control Component Inc," NTPC had said in a statement.
"It is a general statement with no specific details, BHEL can comment only when full details (as put up by Control Component to the US court) are accessible," a BHEL official had said.
Mr. Ramachandran said, "The case has not been registered with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). As and when it comes to India, the CBI will refer the matter to us. Then, we will look into it."
According to the US Justice department documents, the payments related to India were made between 2004 and 2007.
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