New Delhi: CBI has forwarded to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) the summons to be served abroad to three officials of Switzerland-based Swiss Timing Limited for their alleged role in a 2010 Commonwealth Games related corruption case in which Suresh Kalmadi among others is facing trial. The agency has filed the copy of the March 26 letter sent to the MHA before a Delhi court after it had directed the CBI to submit its status report in connection with the service of summons by March 28.
In its forwarding letter sent to MHA, the CBI has given brief details of the case and has annexed copies of summons issued for July 2, 2013 against Swiss Timing's General Manager Christophe Berthaud, Sales and Marketing Manager S Chianese and Multi Sports Events and Sales Manager J Spiri. "The summons in duplicate, accompanied by its annexures...duly issued by the trial court and their German translations along with translation certificates dated March 19, 2013 are enclosed herewith for service as per the letters of agreement dated February 20, 1989 between the Governments of India and Switzerland in the matter of providing mutual assistance in criminal matters," the letter sent by the CBI to the ministry said.
"It is further mentioned that the summons need to be received by Federal Department of Justice and Police, Switzerland thirty days prior to the date of the summons for onward service to the addressee," the letter said. Swiss Timing, along with sacked CWG Organising Committee
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Switzerland-based Swiss Timing Ltd has been put on trial for allegedly conspiring and cheating the exchequer in a Commonwealth Games scam case, involving Suresh Kalmadi and nine others, by a Delhi court which also asked CBI to file a chargesheet against the firm's 3 senior officials. ...
06:29 PM, Mar 07, 2013
A special CBI court on Monday framed charges against Suresh Kalmadi for allegedly favouring Swiss Timing in the run up to the Commonwealth Games and causing a loss of Rs 95 crore to the exchequer. ...
11:47 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Tough times are ahead for the man who once headed one of India's top sporting bodies. A special CBI court on Monday framed charges against Suresh Kalmadi for allegedly favouring Swiss Timing in the run up to the Commonwealth Games and causing a loss of Rs 95 crore to the exchequer. ...
07:44 PM, Feb 04, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a plea by Swiss Timing to stay a lower court proceeding against them in the Commonwealth Games Time Scoring and Results scam (TSR). According to the CBI chargesheet against them, sacked CWG Olympic Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi and others escalated the Swiss firm's tender cost, causing a loss of Rs 90 crore to the exchequer. Swiss Timing had approached the HC...
11:05 AM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court is likely to decide on the plea of one of the accused in the Commonwealth Games Time Scoring and Results (TSR) scam on Monday. Switzerland-based firm, the Swiss Timing Omega, is seeking a stay on possible coercive measures against it, ordered by a lower court. Sacked CWG Olympic Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi had allegedly granted the contract to Swiss Timing, causing a loss of...
07:27 AM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Patiala Court is set to hear the trial of Swiss Timing on Thursday, the firm which was awarded the timing, scoring and results systems contract for the Commonwealth Games last year. The court had earlier reserved its order on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plea to separate the trial of Swiss Timing Ltd. The defence counsel claimed there was no legal provision under which it had...
09:17 AM, Nov 03, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of former CWG Organising Committee Secretary General Lalit Bhanot, accused of favouring a Swiss firm in a contract that led to a loss of over Rs 90 crore to the exchequer. "I find no merit in the bail application moved by the accused Bhanot. Therefore, his bail application is dismissed," Justice Mukta Gupta said. CWG OC chairman Suresh...
11:14 AM, Jul 05, 2011
New Delhi: Two top officials in the CWG Organising Committee (OC) misquoted the budget for Timing Scoring and Results (TSR) system and ignored lower bid by another firm to award the contract to the Swiss firm Omega, the CBI has been informed. Bharat Prasad, who joined OC in July 2008 as Deputy Director General (Finance) and has been named by CBI as a witness in the TSR scam case, in...
09:01 AM, Jul 03, 2011
New Delhi: Former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman and CWG scam accused Suresh Kalmadi's bail plea will come up for hearing on Thursday. It was postponed on Saturday after Kalmadi claimed to include 'new facts' in the Swiss Timing and Scoring contract that would prove his innocence. Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh issued orders to delay the bail plea. CBI has plans to file a supplementary chargesheet so that certain...
10:11 AM, May 26, 2011
New Delhi: The authorised representatives of Swiss Timing, which had bagged the TSR contract for CWG 2010 were close to sacked OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi long before the CWG 2010 and had maneuvered TSR contract in favour of the Swiss firm, CBI has said in its charge sheet. In its first charge sheet indicting Kalmadi and ten others, CBI has said the two officials Anil Madan and Purushottam Dev Arya...
08:18 PM, May 24, 2011
New Delhi: Suresh Kalmadi, Lalit Bhannot and VK Verma, all accused of pushing for a private firm Swiss Timing for supplying Timing Scoring and Results system for the Commonwealth Games (CWG), are now behind the bars. They stand accused ignoring the bid claims of this contract to MSL SPAIN, a Spanish firm, at much lower prices. But now, CNN-IBN has accessed a confidential email, written by Chairman of Technical Committee,...
09:42 PM, May 19, 2011
New Delhi: Suresh Kalmadi, the sacked chairman of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, is to be chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Time Scoring and Result (TSR) scam. Attacked in the court premises earlier, the countdown has begun for Suresh Kalmadi to spend another few months in Tihar jail. CNN-IBN has learnt that the CBI will file its chargesheet against Kalmadi on May 23, unlike TS Darbari...
07:59 PM, May 18, 2011
New Delhi: The CEO of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee told CNN-IBN that he had no option but to sign the inflated deals since most deals and purchases were left for the last moment. Talking to CNN-IBN, Jarnail Singh said, "In the TSR contract, when I came into the scene, it was too late. At that stage, if I hadn't approved it, it would have put the games delivery at...
07:27 AM, Apr 29, 2011
Full text of the CEO of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Jarianil Singh's letter regarding the choice of Swiss Timing for the time scoring deal for the 2010 Commonwealth Games Delhi: Jarnail SinghChief Executive OfficerFebruary 15, 2010Dear Shri Bhatnagar,The complaint from one Mrs. Sangita Goyal dated 24 Nov 2000 forwarded by Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) vide its letter dated 24 Dec 2009 to M/o Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) and...
05:12 PM, Apr 28, 2011
New Delhi: Former Commomwealth Games Chief Suresh Kalmadi's involvement in the Time Scoring and result scam, first exposed on CNN-IBN may be actually deeper. New revelations by CNN-IBN show that the same pattern of inflated prices for TSR equipment was witnessed in the recently concluded national games as well. Documents exclusively accessed by CNN-IBN, and now available with the CBI are bound to add to Kalmadi's problems at a realistic...
07:10 AM, Apr 27, 2011
New Delhi: Suresh Kalmadi has been arrested in the TSR scam with the CBI accusing him of conspiring with a private firm named GEM International, which is the Indian representative of Swiss timing for causing a loss of almost Rs 50 crores. Now investigators are trying to figure out whether this deal was only operational during Commonwealth Games or was it also meant for the recently concluded National Games in ...
08:57 PM, Apr 26, 2011
New Delhi: Suresh Kalmadi has been arrested in the TSR scam with the CBI accusing him of conspiring with a private firm named GEM International, which is the Indian representative of Swiss timing for causing a loss of almost Rs 50 crores. Now investigators are trying to figure out whether this deal was only operational during Commonwealth Games or was it also meant for the recently concluded National Games in...
08:57 PM, Apr 26, 2011
