Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
Two more FIR filed against Prashanth Kumar MV alias Prashanth Madal under PC act after the Lokayukta police found two men carrying 90 lakh cash waiting for him at office and another man who turned out to be Prashanth’s distant relative was found waiting at the officer with cash 60 lakh.
Police suspect that Prashanth operates with much such corrupt practices from his office while his distant relative arrested now booked also caretaker of the benami properties which Prashanth has amassed .
According to the First FIR where Inspector Kumaraswamy BG is the complainant,stated that during the raid at the office of Prashanth on Cresent road where the Lokayukta sleuths caught him red handed along with the cash,also found two people sitting at the sofa at the entrace of the office waiting for Prashanth.
Upon Questioning the duo identified as Albert Nicolas and Gangadhar,and tried to give vague response and questioned them to find that they are field staff of Karnataka Aromas company and came to deliver the bags.
The bags each carried contained Rs.45 lakh cash along with some documents,which is being seized.
The duo told the Lokayukta officials that they have been instructed by their manager Deepak Jadhav to hand over the cash as part of the commission amount to Prashanth.
Based on their statement,the police have booked Deepak Jadhav,owner of the Aroma company,and staff and officials of the KSDL charging them under section 7, 8,9, 10 of the PC Act on Wednesday .
The accused according to Mr.Kumaraswamy was visited the office with the cash Rs.90 lakh in return for getting the tender from KSDL and to get purchase order and get the funds release.
In the second FIR the Lokayukta officials found Siddesh Anil,a 28-year-old farmer from Chitradurga,sitting at the office of Prashanth at another room with a bag containing cash Rs.60 lakh.
Upon Questioning by the officials Siddesh confessed that he is distant relative of Prashanth and had come to deliver the cash.However he did not disclose the source of the cash and the officials suspect that it could also be a part of the commission. .
The probe revealed that Siddesh is owner of several Benami properties which actually belonged to Prashanth.
The police also found Surendra Sundar,an accountant with the private firm at the office which is linked to Siddesh and Prashanth and have been booked under various sections of the PC act for further investigations.
This two cases according to Lokayukta officials are different from the case of MLA Virupaksha Madal which is being booked along with his son under Prevention of Corruption following a raid on Last Thursday following a complaint from Shreyas Kashyap
, partner of Chemixil Corporation.
Presently the Lokayukta officials continue questioning Virupakashappa Madal on the source of huge amount of cash and other valuables recovered from his house during the search and seizure operation .
