MAPUSA: Louis Berger money laundering and bribery case involving former chief minister Digambar Kamat and ex PWD minister Churchill Alemao has been adjourned to March 15 by a special court Mapusa on Monday.
The special court Mapusa on Monday adjourned the matter in Louis Berger money laundering and bribery case involving former chief minister Digambar Kamat and ex PWD minister Churchill Alemao to March 15
The case was adjourned after the counsel for one of the accused moved an application under section 319 seeking more time.
It can be recalled that in year 2015, the crime branch had registered an offence under section 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information) of the IPC and section 7, 8 and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act against former Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, Churchill Alemao and others and accused of allegedly accepting a bribe in 2010 from officials of US-based Louis Berger consultancy firm ostensibly to secure implementation rights of a multi-billion dollar water and sewerage project in Goa worth Rs1,031 crore funded by the Japan International Co-Operation Agency (ICA).
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had also registered a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in 2015 against both Kamat and Alemao who were ministers in the government in 2010.
