State Crime Branch police on Monday arrested the louis Berger group’s former vice-president Satyakam Mohanty here on the charge of paying off Goa politicians and officials in 2010.
Mohanty, who resides at Gurgaon, was booked under relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act for offering bribe to Goa politicians and officials to secure implantation rights for a Rs 1,031-crore water and sewerage management project in 2010, according to reports.
Top officials of louis Berger have already pleaded guilty to a New Jersey District Court to offering bribes of $3.9 million to secure contracts in countries such as India, Vietnam, Indonesia and Kuwait. Mohanty is the second person arrested in connection with the scam. last week, JICA project director Anand Wachasundar was arrested in the bribery case.