CBI closes Tatra vehicle purchase scam probe

August 26, 2014 21:02

CBI today closed its probe into alleged irregularities in Tatra all-terrain vehicle supply to the army, saying there was insufficient evidence to file a charge sheet in the case.

The agency filed its closure report before Special CBI court in New Delhi.

CBI sources said the allegation that the all-terrain trucks were supplied by Tatra Sipox UK promoted by Ravinder Rishi did not stand during the probe as the Czech-based company gave in writing that Rishi's company was authorised distributor of its products.

The allegation that initial payment mode was in dollars but later converted to Euro thus increasing the cost also failed to stand legal scrutiny after Bank of Czechoslovakia claimed that it was the bank which had insisted on the change in currency, they said.

CBI also concluded that lack of indigenisation of trucks supplied by Tatra was not a lapse.

CBI sources said since evidence collected during the probe did not support all the three major allegations, it was decided to file closure report in the case.

The agency had registered the case as an off-shoot of then army chief Gen V K Singh's complaint that he was offered bribe for clearing a tranche of Tatra all-terrain vehicles.

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