While Alemao was arrested immediately, crime branch failed to get police custody of Kamat, despite accusing him of being the ‘main conspirator’. On October 2016, crime branch filed a 350-page supplementary chargesheet against Kamat. Louis Berger International Inc, a New Jersey-based construction management firm, was charged in a US court with paying bribes amounting to a little under $1 million (over Rs 6 crore) for projects in Goa and Guwahati. He also said that the ED, after completing investigation, filed complaints against the two under Section 4 of the PMLA, 2002.The ED had attached properties worth Rs 1.95 crore belonging to Kamat and Alemao. PANAJI: The court constituted under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) on Saturday issued summons to former chief ministers Digambar Kamat and Churchill Alemao , both sitting MLAs, asking them to appear in person on August 28 in the Louis Berger bribery case.Special public prosecutor for the enforcement directorate (ED), G D Kirtani, said that Kamat and Alemao have to be present in the Mapusa court on August 28.
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