http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Gun-ready-for-testing--Singapore-firm-top-brass-rush-to-explain/475807
Indianexpress.com, 13 Jun 2009
Gun ready for testing,
Singapore firm top brass rush to explain
With its 155-mm lightweight
howitzer lined up at the Army’s testing range at Pokhran, the top
brass of defence contractor Singapore Technologies, president and
CEO Tan Phey Hock and Vice President Patrick Choy, are here in an
attempt to explain to the UPA government that their company has
nothing to do with either middlemen or those named in the bribery
scandal allegedly involving former Ordinance Factory Board chief
Sudipta Ghosh.
The company has also written a letter to the Defence Ministry and
is said to have claimed that it wasn’t involved with Ghosh and
middlemen, including Ramesh Nambiar, who figure in the CBI
investigation.
Singapore Technologies and six companies are not mentioned in the
FIR against Ghosh but the Defence Ministry has said these firms are
under the scanner based on
“evidence” and has put all “procurement processes (with these
firms) on hold.”
Sources said even the Israeli defence contractors have been
informed that India will not hesitate to initiate action against
them if they were found to be using middlemen.
The MoD has written to the CBI asking for “further details on
liabilities of these companies.” Even though there is a view in
South Block that ST’s howitzer be tested as this is just a
preliminary step in the procurement process, it is understood that
this decision has been left to Defence Minister A K Antony.
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