Navayuga group of companies chairman C. Visweswara Rao on Monday appeared before the Central Bureau of Investigation to be questioned on Mr Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy's assets, chief of them being the Vanpic project. Matrix Enport owned by Mr Nimmagadda Prasad has sold huge stakes in the Vanpic Ports Limited to the Navayuga Engin-eering Company Limited without informing the state government and violated the initial MoU. Mr Visweswara Rao and Mr S.A. Sattar, director of the group, who appeared before the CBI, were questioned regarding the deal with Mr Nimmagadda Prasad.
Mr Prasad and IRAS official Brahmananda Reddy were present at Dilkusha Guest House during the questioning. The CBI alleged that Matrix's Mr Prasad sold the equity to Navayuga in 2011. It charged that the deviations in the concession agreement permitted a dilution of the Ras Al Khaima share to 26 per cent, facilitating the entry of Navayuga Engineering into the Vanpic Ports Limited. Navayuga thus had cornered 65 per cent of equity and got control of the twin ports project. Navayuga gained control over the project without going through the open competitive bidding process, the CBI claimed.
The state government has issued a show cause notice to Vanpic Ports, asking why the company diluted the equity structure and took Navayuga on board without obtaining the prior permission of the government.
CBI court to hear jagan case on May 28
There is no relief for Kadapa MP Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and 11 others summoned to appear before the special principal judge for CBI cases in the MP’s illegal assets case. All those served summons in the case would have to appear before the court on May 28.
A petition filed by the accused No. 2, Mr Vijay Sai Reddy, asked for an adjournment and deferring further proceedings in the enquiry and trial in the case till the investigation was completed by the CBI and a final report submitted. Principal special judge A. Pullaiah reserved the orders for May 28, the day on which the accused in the first chargesheet, including Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy, have to appear before the court. When Vijay Sai Reddy's counsel petitioned the court to give the orders a day before,the Judge Pullaiah said: “Let them give their first appearance.”
Earlier in the day, Mr Vijay Sai Reddy's counsel argued that the CBI had acted illegally by filing a chargesheet before completing the investigation. The counsel said that the CBI filed its first charge sheet on March 31, the 89th day of his client's arrest, only to ensure that the arrested was not released on bail. However, the defence counsel told the court that the CBI filed two more charge-sheets, and that it would file seven or eight more charge sheets in the case.