Taking forward its probe in the pay off case involving US firm Louis Berger, the Goa Police issued summons to former chief minister Digambar Kamat on Tuesday and quizzed the then Public Works minister Churchill Alemao.
Kamat, who headed the previous Congress ministry, was asked by the Crime Branch to appear before the investigators on Tuesday evening for questioning in connection with the case which came to light after the US firm’s disclosure in a court there.
Besides heading the Congress government, Kamat was also holding the Finance portfolio in 2010 when officials of the US company allegedly doled out bribes to win consultancy for a Japan-funded water augmentation and sewerage project in the state.
Tenders for the project, executed under JICA (Japanese International Cooperation Agency) were issued when PWD was under Alemao.
Officials of the New Jersey-based Louis Berger, in a submission before a US court, had admitted paying bribe to an Indian ‘minister’ to win consultancy for the line laying project in Goa and Guwahati.
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