New Delhi: The Election Directorate (ED) on Thursday filed a complaint under FEMA against sacked CWG Organising Committee (OC) Chief Suresh Kalmadi and 4 others in the Queens Baton Rally case.
The complaint is in connection with financial irregularities in the payments made to a London based firm AM Films.
The complaint points to foreign exchange violations, unauthorised payments and over invoicing to to the tune of Rs 4.6 crore.
It also says the contract for conducting the event was given to AM Films, despite the fact that another company had already won the global tender for it.
The complaint also mentions former CWG OC members like Jayachandran, VK Verma, Mahendru and Lalit Bhanot.
But TS Darbari, who was first blamed in case, has not been named.
The complaint (equivalent of a charge sheet) was filed by the agency to its adjudicating authority here and alleges foreign exchange contraventions to the tune of about Rs 5 crore in the conduct of the Queens Baton Relay (QBR) held in 2009 in London.
Kalmadi, according to agency's complaint, was named for providing his signatures in his "individual capacity" and allowing "unauthorised payments" of more than Rs 8 crore and few others for the conduct of the QBR and also side-stepping five other service providers in favour of a firm - AM Films and Cars limited.
The ED complaint also mentions how the OC violated its own charter for the event and hired luxury vehicles like Mercedes S-class, BMW-7 series thereby violating the authorisation for hiring only "mid-size" cars for ferrying guests, athletes and other dignitaries.
With Additional Inputs from PTI
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