Corporate espionage: CBI raids various ministries, firms, recovers Rs 60 lakh
The central probe agency also registered a case to probe the leakage of sensitive documents from various union ministries.
The Delhi Police earlier arrested two employees of the Defence Ministry and a former journalist Santanu Saikia in connection with the corporate espionage case.
The police have reportedly arrested 16 people so far from two modules and registered two FIRs in connection with the leak of classified documents from several ministries.
Investigators are likely to arrest at least seven more people in connection with the case.
Those arrested include government officials who were temporary multi-tasking staff in the oil ministry. They used fake identities to enter the building and the documents were either stolen or photocopied.
Police said two diaries seized from Santanu Saikia and Prayas Jain, a Melbourne-based energy consultant, were being examined.
The diaries purportedly contain details regarding the alleged transactions of Saikia and Jain.
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