Goemkarponn Desk
PANAJI: The Special Court at Mapusa has adjourned the Louis Berger money laundering and bribery case involving former chief minister Digambar Kamat and ex PWD minister Churchill Alemao has been adjourned to March 15.
The case was adjourned after the counsel for one of the accused moved an application under section 319 seeking more time.
It was alleged that US-based firm Louis Berger had bribed Indian officials with several crores of rupees to win two major water developmental projects in Goa.
The Rs 1,031-crore project, funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), was approved when the Kamat-led government was in power, for augmenting water supply in south Goa and laying sewerage lines in the state’s major cities.
It was alleged that the state ministers received bribes to the tune of $976,000 to grant contracts for the JICA-funded project in Goa. Kamat was alleged to have received a bribe of Rs 1.2 crore while Alemao was alleged to have received Rs 75 lakh.