Goa: The Goa crime branch on Monday arrested Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) project director AM Wachasundar, its first in the Louis Berger scam allegedly involving the previous Congress government in the state. JICA was a part of the consortium behind the water development project in 2010.
Wachasundar served as a chief engineer in the Public Works Department in Goa and was later appointed as the JICA project director.
The Goa crime branch has submitted a report to the Chief Minister's Office saying it has been able to establish the money trail. The crime branch says Wachasundar was allegedly fixing deals between Louis Berger and two ministers in the previous Congress government.
Amid the controversy, former Congress minister Churchill Alemao, who was allegedly bribed by the US firm, has claimed that he’s being framed in the case, calling it a political conspiracy.
Alemao was the Public Works Department minister at the time the US-based company had won a water project in the state.
Earlier on July 21, the Goa crime branch had started the investigation into the Louis Berger bribery scam over allegations of kickbacks for a water development project sanctioned under the Congress government in Goa in 2010.
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