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Corporate espionage: Top officials of energy companies to be quizzed
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IBNS): With the arrests of mid level corporate officials, top executives of top energy companies are likely to be questioned by investigators in connection with the petroleum document leak case, media reports said.
Investigators say they are in the process of summoning them on the basis of the evidence they have collected and the disclosures made by the arrested officials, The Times of India reported.
Earlier, former journalist Santanu Saikia, who was arrested in connection with the theft of classified documents of the petroleum ministry, claimed on Saturday that he had been framed as he was working to uncover a Rs 10,000 crore scam.
Saikia, who was brought to the Crime Branch office in Chanakyapuri following a mandatory medical check-up, shouted to journalists who gathered there, saying the charges against him were fabricated.
Without giving details, he had claimed his arrest was an attempt to cover up the alleged scam in the petroleum ministry involving Rs. 1,000 crore that he was working on to uncover.
Saikia ran a portal that provided information on the oil and gas industry.
He is among 12 people, including five top corporate executives, arrested so far in connection with the leak of secret documents from the petroleum, coal and power ministries.
Police said on Friday that an input for the Finance Minister’s Budget speech and several key policy documents were recovered from the arrested people.
Police said two diaries seized from Saikia and Prayas Jain, a Melbourne-based energy consultant who has also been arrested, were being examined.
The diaries purportedly contain details regarding “illegal business” transactions of Saikia and Jain, police claim.
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