In its probe in the Tatra truck scam, the CBI has found a 1994 offer letter from Czech manufacturer Tatra expressing willingness for direct collaboration with BEML for supplying completely built trucks at 40 per cent discount on their retail price, on condition to do away with intermediaries.

The CBI, probing alleged irregularities in procurement of around 6,000 Tatra trucks by the Indian army, has now started scrutinising annual reports and balance sheets submitted by Tatra Sipox (UK), th

Seven years before the issue rocked the country, the Defence Ministry had gone into the procurement of Tatra trucks through an intermediary company and not original manufacturers and had closed the