CWG: Enforcement Directorate to interrogate 2 businessmen close to Suresh Kalmadi

NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has broadened its probe in the Commonwealth Games scam and will soon question two businessmen allegedly linked to sacked CWG committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi, in a money laundering case, agency sources said on Friday.

The Directorate will soon approach the court to question the promoters of Faridabad-based Gem International-- Anil K Madan and Purushottam Dev Arya for their role in the Timing, Scoring and Result (TSR) deal, the sources said.

Both are in judicial custody after they surrendered before the court in August this year.

"Both will be questioned for their role in executing the contract. They are being probed on money laundering charges," ED sources said.

The firm, according to sources, had created five "bogus invoices" to execute works more than Rs 23 crore for the sporting event held in October last year here.

The agency has traced certain transactions in this regard.

The CBI in its chargesheet had said that the authorised representatives of Swiss Timing, which had bagged the TSR contract for CWG 2010 were close to Kalmadi long before and had tilted the contract in favour of the Swiss firm.

Kalmadi was arrested by the CBI in the same case and the role of the duo is important in the award and execution of this contract.

The ED has filed a case under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) based on the same chargesheet.

CBI has said both Madan and Arya, the authorised representatives of 'Swiss Timing', which was "fradulently" awarded the TSR contract, were personally known to Kalmadi long before the mega sporting event.