Emaar-DDA under probe scanner, OC to face ED

EMAAR-MGF, a joint venture firm of MGF Development Limited and Dubai-based Emaar Properties PJSC which was awarded the contracts by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) for the Commonwealth Games village, is under the scanner of the panel probing the Games corruption.

Media reports said the government has confiscated Rs 183 crore from Games Village builders EMAAR-MGF.

This confiscated amount was the bank guarantee by EMAAR as bank guarantee.

Reports said the government found several shortcomings in their constructions.
The DDA in its interim report to the government said the firm did not carry out its work properly.

According to an NDTV report, internal documents in possession of the channel said there were serious building defects in the Games village.

Meanwhile, according to latest reports, the Enforcement Directorate is likely to quiz Commonwealth Games Organising Committee top officials like Suresh Kalmadi and Lalit Bhanot.

The government has ordered a multi-agency probe into the corruption while a former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) is heading the probe panel.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress engaged in slanging match over the issue with the former demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe on Commonwealth Games (CWG) corruption and the latter hitting back by dragging its rival leaders into the quagmire of the scandal.

Income Tax officials raided the house BJP leader Sudhanshu Mittal among 30 places where raids were conducted to ascertain the complaints of financial bunglings in the funds for the Commonwealth Games.

Mittal, who was the director of Deepali Arts, owned by his nephew Vinay Mittal, had bagged a deal of Rs 230 crore to supply treadmills, umbrellas and other equipment of the Games.

Mittal said he was innocent and being made a scapegoat by the government.