Corporate espionage case: CBI widens probe, may quiz Corporate Affairs Ministry officers: Sources
Corporate espionage case: CBI widens probe, may quiz Corporate Affairs Ministry officers: Sources
According to CBI sources, during interrogation and scanning of documents after raids, role of the ministry is being probed.

New Delhi: Tightening the noose around the Corporate Affairs ministry, the Central Bureau of Investigation is likely to examine the officials of the the department in connection with alleged sale of confidential documents to corporate groups.

The investigation revealed that Corporate Affairs Ministry officials were involved in sending documents to Chartered Accountant Khemchand Gandhi who passed them on to corporates houses for money.

CBI has claimed that the ministry officials will help them examine and understand any wrong doings at their end. The CBI in touch with SEBI for gains in stock market by these companies.

Earlier, CBI had said that "first and second level of decision making in the Finance Ministry were compromised", but now the agency sources said probe may bring into scanner officials above these levels. It is alleged that the government servants were passing on documents related to foreign investment policies, which were being floated in the ministries who in turn passed them on to big corporate groups for a price.

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