EOW takes 3 of OSMO co into custody
   Date :12-Apr-2019

 
 
Staff Reporter:
 
A day after filing an FIR against unidentified persons in e-tender tampering case, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) took three persons of a private company into custody on Thursday. EOW also searched the office of concerned company in State capital. Now, the EOW is planning to expand its investigation criteria. Talking to ‘The Hitavada’ Director General (DG) of EOW K N Tiwari told that three persons of a private company named OSMO IT Solutions have been taken into custody for interrogation.
 
This company role is under scanner in e-tender tampering case. The names of persons taken into custody are Vinay Chaudhary, Varun Chaturvedi and Sumit Golwalkar. Sources said that OSMO IT Solutions is under scanner in connection with e-tender of Jal Nigam. Notably, EOW is probing alleged tampering done in nine e-tenders of five departments. Directors of seven companies have been booked apart from some bureaucrats and politicians. However, no accused has been named in the FIR. “When the time will come, we will tell about the names of accused,” said EOW sources. In the meantime, political slugfest has commenced over EOW action in e-tendering scam.
 
Though no payment was made as after coming through the complaint of tempering in e tender, then BJP government had scrapped entire e-tender process and invited fresh e tenders. “But the attempt of offence is equivalent to the actual offence and we are probing the case,” said DG EOW K N Tiwari. Sources in the EOW feels that e-tender scam may be the tip of iceberg and in deep investigation may expose wider irregularities done in the name of e-tender. The e-tender scam is said to be of around Rs 3,000 crore. The accused companies have been charged of getting their tender quoted at lowest bid by getting their bid price changed through the help of some unknown persons. As of now, EOW is probing the e-tender tempering of five departments, including PWD, Jal Nigam, PIU, MP Road Corporation and Water Resources Department. BJP is breathing fire on the timing of EOW action which comes in the backdrop of I-T raids carried out against close aides of Chief Minister Kamal Nath. BJP is dubbing EOW action done by Kamal Nath government with political vendetta.