CBI begins Jagan custodial interrogation
Kadapa MP Jagan Mohan Reddy was questioned on Sunday, the first day of his CBI custody, at the IG’s office near Chanchalguda prison. After seven days of being in prison, a clean shaven and smiling Mr Reddy seemed composed as he emerged from the jail and got into the waiting car.
His wife Bharati Reddy, who had come to meet him during the lunch hour, was denied permission. She later said that she only caught a glimpse of her husband.
Though preparations at the CBI’s office at Koti earlier in the day indicated that the YSR Congress chief would be taken there for interrogation, the venue was changed in the last minute due to security reasons. His counsel Ashok Reddy was present during the questioning.
A team of CBI officials reached the Chanchalguda prison with the copy of the court order granting custody and Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy was taken to the officers’ mess of the IG office in a CBI vehicle escorted by the police.
The CBI has accused Mr Reddy of using hawala channels to send bribe money abroad which were then re-invested in his businesses. The CBI alleged that investments worth `1,234 crore were made into his businesses and that he had got richer by `300 crore.The CBI had earlier pointed out how Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy had floated a number of companies and got investments on a quid pro quo basis from investors who had benefited from decisions of the government led by his father Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy. In the chargesheets, he has been alleged to have criminally conspired with accused no. 2 V. Vijay Sai Reddy and channelled more than `100 crore of ill-gotten money.
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