Monday, March 7, 2011

Kalmadi says ready to face any probe

Former Common wealth Games Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi, who is under fire for supposed financial mismanagement in the conduct of the 2010 Common wealth Games, asserting that he had not done anything wrong on Saturday said he is ready to face any investigation."I am ready to face every investigation. I have not done anything wrong and I am not running from anybody. The CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) went through everything in my house, but could find nothing," said Kalmadi.

A team from the Central Bureau of Investigation raided two bank lockers of Kalmadi in Pune on Tuesday as part of the agency's current investigate into the supposed financial irregularities in the 2010 games contracts. The team from Delhi searched the lockers in several Pune banks. The CBI sealed the lockers in December last year. The CBI had visited branches of the ICICI and Saraswat banks in Karvenagar in December 2010, when officials raided Kalmadi's homes and offices in Pune and Delhi.

Kalmadi, who has been in the eye of the storm ever since the conduct of the games, received a fresh blow on February 11, when the CBI arrested Shekhar Mukund Deorukhkar from Pune. Deorukhkar has been accused of hiding facts about transactions and contract papers, which were eventually recovered during the raids conducted by the CBI. Deorukhkar is the fourth person to have been arrested in connection with the CWG scams. The CBI had earlier arrested T S Darbari, Sanjay Mohindroo and M Jayachandran, all of whom are now out on bail.

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